MADE IN GERMANY
Ta« following verses have been published In th" days' of peace for the world of Tra,<fo 'I hey su»ped their mark on the goods they made; , ~ . But never again will they flaunt their name, For they have made it a badge of shame. They've stripood H bare of its cutwatd pnda, A.nd shown the greed' and the hwt inside; And men will shudder when-e'er tbey see Hull's label red—" Mads in Germany." Before their eyes dead men will float Who were left to die in o.n open boat; To the end of Time will picture* rise Of demons high in the summer efcjes Seeking the haunts where the wounded lie. To murder them as they hurry by; Nor all their skill nor their art will hide The captive bay whom they crucified. A little child with his T%ht hand gone Will live, when the years have travelled on, As the sign of the German heart and schools With tha crimson blood of the babe* f» pools, And the innocent dead with their 'faces fair Bombed by cowards high in air Will rise lo!ig after the war shall cease To shame ths Hun in the years of peace. Made by Germany! Men will start As they seo that badge- in the. traders' vomsL On whatever that stamp- of shame is seen. There will be :he taint of a thins: unciean. They have fouled -with sin what was »aea tfeir pride, And they filial 1 live by the world denied; Fa- wherever that mark through the year* is met There will rise the Boenee loen can't forget-
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Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 2
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268MADE IN GERMANY Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 2
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