HOUSE, HOW CAM YOU STAY QUIET ?

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 522, 18 May 1915, Page 7

HOUSE, HOW CAM YOU STAY QUIET ?

I do not know the people of the house ; I only know of them, and of their eon, His name had been told to London yesterday, Among the names of those dead where there is war.'* • House, . great house, how can you stay quiet like that, When .your only son is killed ? Why do you not cry out, cry out to London? . Why ®o you not cry out your grief to all the streets of London ? And your pride to the sunrise? House, great house, How can it be that they set your room m order for a day When he is dead ? How can it be that of such mourning you give no sight or sound? Why do you not cry v out to London : "Take my sorrow, and make a throne of it." There- passed a coster cart, Little pandering donkey with a feather behind one ear, Wheels rattling, cockney boy singing, Then there passed a milk cart With beautiful, big, 'shining, golden milk jars. Jjondon, waking, will ask of the day : "Day, what news do you bring of the battle?". ■' , . ' House, can you bear it and not cry ou*/ •to the* day : * His name is told ; what is your news to me?'" .