CURRENT WAR POETRY.
WHERE THERE IS NO PEACE. BlfatiDg of peace where yet no peace may be And seeing in each artful Hunnish phrase A striking proof of love and amity, We turn our eyes towards that distant Where man Dy rQan the: P irates ' victim* drown Or with a sudden awful agony. The tigers of the ocean drng them down. See where the pirate cap-rain boldly stands Watching our seamen's last ana Hopeless lien whose one weapon is their naked hands. Till even he. in frightfulness , despite Finds Ills soul sicken at the hideous sight And sinks beneatth the sea—to rise again To prove once more h'S gallant vessel'e might And swell his record of raen foully slain. ,| Such lie enr "brothers"! Such, we know, were they Who tortured Belgium, laughing as thej; slew The yuung and innocent, the old and grey; Who sped the sudden bolt from out the blue On many an open town. Shall we who A righteous sword stretch forth the hand of peace? Nay, but our hand has sterner work to do. Until the reign of hell on earth shall cease! —"Toudhstone," in the "Dally Mail."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 251, 20 October 1917, Page 13
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