THE PRICE

Evening Star, Issue 16090, 15 April 1916, Page 5

THE PRICE

We fight and dio in the trenches,

We drown in ~i,e mashim' seas; Wo guard ouipcd.j on winter nights

In i'ro teeth 0' : tho northern breeze. By ievr, frost, n.,d hunger, By thirst 'neai L ck"idle>s sky, By cannon, steel, aw bullet, Tho sons of at: cmr-'re die. Fcr this is the lt\v oj an empire; "Tv.'&s ever tho kmoy vay. God I Do they te.-k tie" awful cost Their valiai.t so.is ;t..ust pay? Wo pay the price in ihe longingThat comes thrvug'i a battle Laze. For tho voilejs cf thr Rhineland, For ihe prhmoe-sf.dded ways; Fcr the Kremlin belb at evenir.!;. For the vir.ayot l's warmth at noon; While criinsoi' mi its ' jylim our eyes In tho sheets ot -m t.ien moon. Wo paj' by the law (C an empire,

Tiy, tiio cone of an -acient day. For power, for g.eed. for trcanon TII9 s;.ns cf an erepiro pay. We pay! Wc pa;' for tho empire: Wo pay for tin- 10-.vd, who dwell Secure in the hoi iclai.j harbor,

While wo fitliD i/i tb.- outside holt Wa freezo on lioriher barrens,

Wc thirst Vie it tho grey veldt's dry; We are cripplxl, 'Uah.ied, and bleeding,

Ami in t&r.e'efi ;rr:.ves must lie;. For Ti3 writ n the icw of an empire—

It's as oki as '.'l*. ddesfc day— Fof ipower, f<r f;v?.e-"i for treason

Tha sons o" s;i e.r.oire pay. —Elisabefc'aWrfclihrrton. c\ ' New Yo-k Times.'

Omar Khay/ai . the I'orsiau poet, flourished in tlu ti.uv. .1 \Yiiliam the Conqueror.