THE CRY OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.
Till! following line* are by the daughter of Mr. Ifenniker Beaton, M.l'.: — Cull was there e'er moll a day' (toil! was there e'er such a night? Butchered and bleeding we pray; Help in the pitiless fight. Silently, year upon year. Patiently bore We the yoke. Lord, in Tky mercy, lend ear Unto the cry of Thy folic. Birds of the air nave their songs, Wolves of tne plain have their cry;) Dumb must we suffer one wrongs? Death be our enly reply? We who have worked on the soil, (.'rushed by a merciless band. Claim tor our labour and toil A voice in the laws ot the land. Brothers are killed in the East, Starving the.V go to their late. Can ye, then, marvel the beast Cries for the blood of its mate? Ah! 'twas in vain that we turned, Father of Russia,' to thee. Prayer and petition were spurned—. What can the end of it be? Motherless babies may weep— Nowhere to pillow their headMothers stretch arras in their sleep Out to the babes that are dead. Stained is the snow with the blood 01 brothers who fell by the sword. Hod run the ♦.orrer.t -<nd flood— Vengeance is mine, saitii the Lord.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12833, 5 April 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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