CURRENT WAR POETRY.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 70, 22 March 1919, Page 17

CURRENT WAR POETRY.

RETRIBUTION. ■ J Who breaks the Truce of the Peoples iTs guilty of Peoples - Harm: ■ Hear row the Voice of the Peoples, ! Man with the Palsied Arm.* ■ You have broken the Laws of the Earth; ' Vnn have broken the Law of the Seas; I You have butchered the babe in it* L mother's womb, • Aβ the babe .?t Its mother's knees; i Yon have rnraped our homes, and defiled ! The lipiis where our women lay; Our daughters have carried the child That was spawned by your Beasts In Grey; And the cry goes up, from our seething ! towns [■To our loneliest outpost-farm; I"A seven-font drop and a hangman's rope ; Kor the Man with the Palsied Arm. ,, . j Our brothers' corpses rot in the mod; I Our husbands rot in the sens: '' Our starring sons have suffered the lash ■And the u.imeless infamies. M You have loosed on earth, In tlie name of :' God. - I The four white horse? of Hell; ' You have pliahied troth, in the place 'I Christ tnrd. 11 With the Turk and the Infidel: . And the word goes up from the Peoples' mouth. ' ! Pitiless, deadly calm: ; ' "The callows-troe nml the hangman's noose 1 j For the Man with the Palsied Arm." 1 j Our dead cry out from the Flanders slime; 'I Our dead cry out from the Seas: il Our outraged women moan in the house — i \ And your life is forfeit for these. -1 By the law of the Sword, that you loosed ' on earth, '• By the law of n life for a life, - Or ever the new world blossom to birth. I O.- the Peoples cease from their strife. f There comes a Voice from the Peoples' 1 mouth, ' From i-iry and sea and farm: > "He has broken the Laws of Earth and the .'■ Seas; IHe is guilty of Peoples' Harm; p i A niw>»(\ and a beam, and a felon's death ViFor the Mau with the Palsied Arm!" v 'The Kaifier. i —Gilbert Frankau, la the "Daili- Mai]. ,,