“TO WILLIAM THE MAD."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 301, 18 December 1914, Page 8

“TO WILLIAM THE MAD."

Tn a recent issue of Nash’s Magazine tins verse appears. The lines are written by Herbert Kaufman, and the editor adds, the note; “It is claimed that there is a strong Mongol strain in the Prussian race.” Spine say that there’s a Mongol strain in Prussian blood ; That when there burst from the fell East that yellow flood Of flat-faced devils, sprung from hell’s own womb, And Attila left Rome behind, a tomb; The Hunnish tribesmen, raiding in the West, '

Left many an Hunnish babe at German’s breast. This is sheer legend; yet, if the tale be true, How proud to-day were Attila of yon!