AN IMPERIAL POTENTATE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13794, 15 June 1915, Page 8

AN IMPERIAL POTENTATE.

A feline brute with- keen, malignant brain, i Whose heart is atrophied, or beats in vain; Ho prowls about the earth with raven- j ous jaws, . Heedless both of divine and human lams; Aeons of civilisation have not seen So stark a monster since the world hath been, The Devil himself, not such a devil he, As this malignant despct seems to be, Whose "cultured" appetites would be the tomb And putrefaction of all moral bloom. Professons, Junkers, generals, statesmen, all Who with such ghastly crimes mankind appal, With him their leader must pass out in death, And free the earth from their putrescent breath; Or all things noble will no longer last, And all lifo's best will vanish with the 1 past, Freedom be- gone, like ships beneath the waves, And all mankind become mechanic slaves; Better the British race should meet its doom, . Than thus survive to walk a living tomb! —A.Y.T. in Wanganui "Chronicle."