"UNSPEAKABLE !"

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 13

"UNSPEAKABLE !"

I dreamed there ire* nothing more loudly than Fame. 1 made It my Idol and knelt to a name; A proud jlohenzollern, il peeked not of sluune When -urged t>7 tie Devil I started bis game. '' So I played pitch and toss till I tottered and fell. ■ I bad riddled -with cannon, with ehrapnel and shell, • ■ I had shattered the home, I bad silenced. ■fhe bell, Defiled the cathedral and summoned from hell The ghouls and the vampires of Attlla's I had wasted my empire and robbed It of Who, driven like cattle and tied to thell Uke creatures whom crnelty stum. From the red ecene of carriuce they tura and they fly - . To the aims that they hated; my lule they Their "strafing" Is silenced, they curse and tlicy cry. But the object's another! O God, ls.it I? Too long and too late I have played with the world; Its oyster's unopened; xor others us ■pearled; My defences are broken, my ibannere ere Against mc, at last, every 'bolt has been hurled. Am I, Sohenzollem, the Jast to descry That defeat Is disaster? Invincible I? I stand in amazement aud ask why, oh ■why? Am I iv my maelstrom to sink like a fly? What! I'm abandoned :by friend and fey In c f o°unclte ol darkness 1 started, and Jo! The path of my conquest, the way ol my Deluded, dissolving my empire most go. 1 'Tis the fate of the foolish, who dare to j That e God In His Heaven still laughs at a Isaw. not, in stars nor in sky, At last I behold it—Unspeakable I! I shrink like a moth In my self-kindled mc with infinite shame; I have drunk to the dress with the geuerals I 'lilamte. The -bitterest draught of a Circe called FAME. _jOYCD JOCELYN. Saaotii, Se»t*n» I 29. WIO,