ARMENIA.
A Land' that pleads vol- mercy Where no mercy is.' ! •Hmv loi!£ shall Islam know theshamo, The guilt full branded on her brow, Of deeds whose blackness bub to name Might well arouse the TTun to vow That on the Turk. t'uc devil's thrall, The bolt of judgment now shall i'all? The patience of a Job has ruled The dealing of the guardian Powers And most the turbancd fientl has fooled The. Solon? of this land of onrSj Tho 'while a helpless people boro Tho Tartar sconi and torments sore. If by its fruit n tree, bo known, If deeds reveal the inner lite. The growth of ghostly seedless sown In hearts iviili. devil's darnel rife, The faith that greets -with .ardent u Well" Ths red' assassin smacks of Hell. What holds Imperial Wilhe.lm's hand, That potent voice, why now so inute, Does Islam's Allah now command That princely spouter of repute, That brothers in tho faith ran bleed, And 1 find in him a broken reed? The -wrongs of this poor tortured race May vainly now for vengeance call, But Heaven's great millstones grind apace, In silenco deep, yet grind they small; Tho day shall come when, like .a flood. His woes shall whelm tlie mail) of blood'. i T3l.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11578, 23 December 1915, Page 4
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212ARMENIA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11578, 23 December 1915, Page 4
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