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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Songs of Heroic Days + +Author: Thomas O'Hagan + +Release Date: August 21, 2011 [EBook #37154] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF HEROIC DAYS *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + +</pre> + + +<BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t1"> +SONGS OF HEROIC DAYS +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +By +</P> + +<P CLASS="t2"> +THOMAS O'HAGAN +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +Author of +<BR><BR> +A Gate of Flowers<BR> +In Dreamland<BR> +Songs of the Settlement<BR> +In the Heart of the Meadow<BR> +and Others<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +Toronto: +<BR> +WILLIAM BRIGGS +<BR> +1916 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +Copyright, Canada, 1916 +<BR> +by Thomas O'Hagan +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +TO THE BRAVE CANADIAN HEARTS<BR> +THAT BEAT AND BATTLE FOR THE<BR> +CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND THE SAFETY<BR> +OF THE EMPIRE.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +PREFACE +</H3> + +<P> +Nearly all these Poems have appeared during the past year in the +columns of the <I>Globe</I> and the <I>Mail</I> and <I>Empire</I> of Toronto, and the +<I>Free Press</I> of Detroit, Michigan. +</P> + +<P> +When the Author read from his poems last winter before the Women's +Press Club of Toronto one of its members suggested that an engrossed +and illuminated copy of the poem, "I Take Off My Hat to Albert," be +presented to His Majesty, King Albert of Belgium. This was done +through the kind offices and courtesy of Mr. Goor, the Belgian +Consul-General at Ottawa. +</P> + +<P> +His Majesty's gracious letter of acceptance, which the reader will find +on another page, is indeed a Royal Foreword to these poetic blossoms of +a piteous though heroic time. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +THOMAS O'HAGAN +<BR> +January 20th, 1916. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t2"> +Contents +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent" STYLE="margin-left: 10%"> +<A HREF="#king">Letter From the King of Belgium</A><BR> +<A HREF="#translation">Translation</A><BR> +<A HREF="#albert">I Take Off My Hat to Albert</A><BR> +<A HREF="#kaiser">The Kaiser's Favorite Poems</A><BR> +<A HREF="#louvain">Louvain</A><BR> +<A HREF="#bhoys">The Kaiser's Bhoys</A><BR> +<A HREF="#mothers">Mothers</A><BR> +<A HREF="#trenches">In the Trenches</A><BR> +<A HREF="#christ">The Christ-Child</A><BR> +<A HREF="#gift">God's New Year's Gift</A><BR> +<A HREF="#louvre">Trouble in the Louvre</A><BR> +<A HREF="#bobs">"Bobs" of Kandahar</A><BR> +<A HREF="#zeppelin">Song of the Zeppelin</A><BR> +<A HREF="#sock">"Sock it to 'Em"</A><BR> +<A HREF="#langemarck">Langemarck</A><BR> +<A HREF="#bugle">The Bugle Call</A><BR> +<A HREF="#mission">His Mission</A><BR> +<A HREF="#achilles">Achilles' Tomb</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chrism">The Chrism of Kings</A><BR> +<A HREF="#tipperary">Tipperary</A><BR> +<A HREF="#gather">Gather the Harvest</A><BR> +<A HREF="#place">The Kaiser's "Place in the Sun"</A><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="king"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +LETTER FROM THE KING OF BELGIUM +</H3> + +<BR> + +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-letter.jpg" ALT="Letter from the King of Belgium" BORDER=""> +<H4> +Letter from the King of Belgium +</H4> +</CENTER> + +<BR> + +<A NAME="translation"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +TRANSLATION +</H3> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +LA PANNE, August 11th, 1915. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY TO THE KING AND<BR> + QUEEN (OF BELGIUM).<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +SIR: +</P> + +<P> +The very delicate words you have found to express to the King your +friendly feelings have greatly touched His Majesty. +</P> + +<P> +The Sovereign, Who has much admired the beautiful illumination adorning +the verses composed in His honor, commands me to thank you sincerely +and to say that He will be glad to keep this valuable souvenir. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +I have the honor to be<BR> + Sir<BR> +Your obedient Servant,<BR> + J. INGENBLEEK,<BR> + <I>Secretary.</I><BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +To DR. THOMAS O'HAGAN,<BR> + Ottawa.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="albert"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +I TAKE OFF MY HAT TO ALBERT<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>Albert, King of Belgium, is the hero of the hour;<BR> +He's the greatest king in Europe, he's a royal arch and tower;<BR> +He is bigger in the trenches than the Kaiser on his Throne,<BR> +And the whole world loves him for the sorrows he has known:<BR> + So I take off my hat to Albert.</I><BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>Defiance was his answer to the Teuton at his gate,<BR> +Then he buckled on his armor and pledged his soul to fate;<BR> +He stood between his people and the biggest Essen gun,<BR> +For he feared not shot nor shrapnel as his little army won:<BR> + So I take off my hat to Albert.</I><BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>King of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, Count of Flanders, all in one;<BR> +Little Kingdom of the Belgae starr'd with honor in the sun!<BR> +You have won a place in history, of your deeds the world will sing,<BR> +But the glory of your nation is your dust-stained, fearless King:<BR> + So I take off my hat to Albert.</I><BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For M. Goor.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="kaiser"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE KAISER'S FAVORITE POEMS<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +What are the Kaiser's favorite poems?<BR> + Well, now, you tax me hard:<BR> +I know the Kaiser's favorite drink<BR> + But do not know his bard;<BR> +I'm sure it is not Schiller<BR> + Who reigns in German homes.<BR> +Nor yet Olympian Goethe,<BR> + Who writes the Kaiser's poems.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Perhaps that Heinrich Heine<BR> + Has touched the Kaiser's soul;<BR> +Or Arndt with his trumpet call<BR> + Like a new conscription roll;<BR> +Or, Walther von der Vogelweide<BR> + With his nest in mythic domes,<BR> +Is the author and creator<BR> + Of the Kaiser's favorite poems.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +If I saw the Kaiser's library<BR> + I'd know well what he reads—<BR> +The color of his fancy<BR> + And the prompter of his deeds:<BR> +I'd learn the depth and wisdom<BR> + Of his theories and his gnomes,<BR> +If I got but just a glance or two<BR> + At the Kaiser's favorite poems.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Then let us go to Essen,<BR> + Where the Kaiser's books are bound;<BR> +They are full of "steel" engravings—<BR> + All "best sellers" there are found;<BR> +For the Prussian soul and spirit<BR> + Speaks in rhythm thro' those tomes,<BR> +And these without a question,<BR> + Are the Kaiser's favorite poems.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="louvain"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +LOUVAIN<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +A shrine, where saints and scholars met<BR> + And held aloft the torch of truth,<BR> +Lies smouldering 'neath fair Brabant's skies,<BR> + A ruined heap—war's prize in sooth!<BR> +The Pilates of Teutonic blood<BR> + That fired the brand and flung the bomb<BR> +Now wash their hands of evil deed,<BR> + While all the world stands ghast and dumb.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Is this your culture, sons of Kant,<BR> + And ye who kneel 'round Goethe's throne?<BR> +To carry in your knapsacks death?<BR> + To feel for man nor ruth nor moan?<BR> +What 'vails it now your mighty guns<BR> + If God be mightier in the sky?<BR> +What 'vail your cities, walls and towers<BR> + If half your progress be a lie?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +The smoking altars, ruined arch<BR> + Of ancient church and Gothic fane<BR> +Have felt the death stings of your shells,<BR> + And speak in pity thro' Louvain.<BR> +Wheel back your guns, your howitzers melt,<BR> + Forget your "World-Power's" cursed plan<BR> +And sign in peace and not in blood<BR> + Dread Sinai's pact 'twixt God and Man.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For His Eminence Cardinal Merrier.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="bhoys"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE KAISER'S BHOYS<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O, the Kaiser's bhoys are marching, "nach Paris" they are going,<BR> +But they've sthopped to rest a minit at the Marne and at the Meuse;<BR> +And the Gordons and the Ministers are thryin' to entertain them,<BR> +For they've every kind of "record" that the Teutons want to choose;<BR> +They have battle cries that sounded for centuries in the Highlands,<BR> +They have war cries fierce and stirring as the breath of Munster gales;<BR> +They are shoutin' to the heavens, and they're shoutin' to the Kaiser,<BR> +"<I>Faugh-a-ballagh!</I>" sons of Odin, or we'll tie you up like bales.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O, the Kaiser's bhoys are dramin' of a naval base at Calais,<BR> +But they wakin' ivery mornin' full of sorrow and of gloom;<BR> +For the little Belgian sojers cut the dykes and flood their trenches,<BR> +And they find their dugouts only jist a bathtub or a tomb.<BR> +But they're makin' progress backward, "<I>nach Berlin</I>" they are going,<BR> +With their "<I>Landsturms</I>" and their "<I>Land-wehrs</I>,"<BR> + keepin' sthep in dim grey line;<BR> +And they'll know far more of Britain and her brood of lions snarlin',<BR> +When they find themselves "<I>su Hause</I>" jist beyant<BR> + "<I>Die Wacht am Rhein</I>."<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For John E. Redmond, M.P.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="mothers"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MOTHERS<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Through the vigils deep of the sable night<BR> + A mother sits in grief alone,<BR> +For her sons have gone to the battle front<BR> + And left on the hearth a crushing stone.<BR> +Beyond the stars that burn at night<BR> + She sees God's arm in pity reach;<BR> +It counsels patience, love and faith,<BR> + Heroic hearts and souls to teach.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +The blue is spann'd and the tide goes out.<BR> + And the stars rain down a kindlier cheer;<BR> +And the mother turns from this throne of grief<BR> + To pierce the years with a joyous tear;<BR> +For duty born of a mother's heart<BR> + Fills all the rounds of our common day—<BR> +Yea, sheds its joy in the darkest night,<BR> + And fills with light each hidden way.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Miss Ina Coolbrith.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="trenches"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +IN THE TRENCHES<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +All day the guns belched fire and death<BR> + And filled the hours with gloom;<BR> +The fateful music smote the sky<BR> + In tremulous bars of doom;<BR> +But as the evening stars came forth<BR> + A truce to death and strife,<BR> +There rose from hearts of patriot love<BR> + A tender song of life.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +A song of home and fireside<BR> + Swelled on the evening air,<BR> +And men forgot their battle line,<BR> + Its carnage and dark care;<BR> +The soldier dropp'd his rifle<BR> + And joined the choral song,<BR> +As high above the tide of war<BR> + It swept and pulsed along.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +That night while sleeping where the stars<BR> + Look down upon the Meuse,<BR> +Where Teuton valor coped with Frank,<BR> + Where rained most deadly dews,<BR> +A soldier youth, in khaki clad,<BR> + Rock'd where the maples grow,<BR> +Smiled in his dream and saw again<BR> + The blue St. Lawrence flow.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Miss Julia O'Sullivan.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="christ"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE CHRIST-CHILD<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Across the waste, across the snow,<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +Past sentinel of friend and foe<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +Comes the Christ-Child clad in white<BR> +Through the storm-clouds of the night.<BR> +Bearing in His lily hands<BR> +Gift of peace to warring lands,<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +"<I>Adeste fideles!</I>" sing the choirs<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +Lurid flame the battle fires<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +Shepherds hear the heavenly song,<BR> +Mid the strife and piteous wrong;<BR> +Peace on earth but not of men,<BR> +Peace that knows not crime nor sin.<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Lay your sceptres at His feet,<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +Christ, the Babe of Bethlehem, greet,<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +Legions stretched in battle line,<BR> +Saw the star and knew the sign,<BR> +Yet forgot that Christ was born<BR> +Prince of Peace, on Christmas morn,<BR> + O the pity! O the pity!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Christmas, 1914.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +For Mrs. George McIntyre.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="gift"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +GOD'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +What shall the coming year bring forth,<BR> + O Lord, who rulest the land?<BR> +For the navies of the sea and air<BR> + Are but stubble in Thy hand.<BR> +The battalions in the field go forth;<BR> + They arm in mighty line;<BR> +Do they kneel to know Thy holy will?<BR> + Have they asked from Thee a sign?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +The kings invoke Thy holy name,<BR> + In their carnage and their strife;<BR> +But the purple gift it was Thine to give<BR> + Recks not of pity nor life:<BR> +For they're drunk with the wine of lustful power,<BR> + And seared with the sins of earth;<BR> +And their prayers and preachments now mock Thy name,<BR> + And make of Thy laws but mirth.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +January 1, 1916.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Duncan Campbell Scott.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="louvre"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +TROUBLE IN THE LOUVRE<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +When the German troops were marching with the Uhlans far ahead,<BR> +The objective point being Paris, as the Berlin wireless said,<BR> +There was trouble in the Louvre, 'mong the paintings on the walls,<BR> +There were shoutings 'cross the centuries, there were<BR> + loud artistic calls;<BR> +"Mona Lisa" ceased her smiling and "The Banker and His Wife"<BR> +Turned to Millet's "Women Gleaning"—begged protection<BR> + for their life;<BR> +While "The Gypsy Girl" of Franz Hals, fearful of impending fate,<BR> +Roused "The Shepherds in Arcadia" with "The Hun is at the Gate!"<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Then the panic spread on all sides till the battle of the Marne<BR> +Solved all danger of the looting, removed all need to warn;<BR> +Straight "The Lace Maker" from Flemish Bruges in the joyous choral led<BR> +Smiled at "Charles First of England" who had lost his crown and head;<BR> +For fear had left the Louvre when the Teutons turned in flight,<BR> +So they scanned the sky no longer for dread Zeppelins in the night.<BR> +And the paintings born of centuries touched by genius into life<BR> +Still are hanging in the Louvre 'mid war's clash and clang and strife.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Edgar Guest.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="bobs"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +"BOBS" OF KANDAHAR<BR> +</H3> + +<P STYLE="margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%"> +"The body of 'Bobs' then lay in state until five o'clock, when it was +interred in a crypt near-by those containing the bodies of Nelson and +Wellington."—<I>Press Despatch</I>. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Who is he that cometh to join our mighty dead?<BR> +Is it "Bobs" of Kandahar the Empire's armies led?<BR> +Give him place, O Nation great! within your storied walls;<BR> +Within our heart his name shall rest, his ashes in St. Paul's.<BR> +Soldier of the Empire, Bobs of Kandahar!<BR> +Lay him near the hero of glorious Trafalgar!<BR> +Death has ta'en the shining sword he aye in duty drew;<BR> +Lay him near the Iron Duke of fateful Waterloo!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Soldier of the Empire, well thy work was done,<BR> +Fit thy sun had setting within sound and roar of gun;<BR> +Thy soul had vision of the years fraught with danger's woe,<BR> +And counsell'd arméd wisdom against a subtle foe;<BR> +Now thy task has ended, the splendor of thy sun,<BR> +Sheds its setting glory on the greater life begun,<BR> +From where the Maple stands in pride to India's torrid star,<BR> +Now, mourn an Empire's people for "Bobs" of Kandahar!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Lady Aileen Mary Roberts.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="zeppelin"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +SONG OF THE ZEPPELIN<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +I cleave the air through the murky night,<BR> + High o'er the forests and sleeping towns;<BR> +Below me drifts the shimmering light—<BR> + A glorious fresco on vale and downs;<BR> +My sea hath no billows nor rocky shores,<BR> + And only the winds disturb my soul;<BR> +I care not for those who slumber in death,<BR> + For my bomb is bloody and death my goal—<BR> + And all for the Vaterland!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Where the currents cross and the cruisers speed<BR> + I sail towards the North in a piteous sky;<BR> +I hear the night wind's surging note<BR> + As it mingles its requiem with the widow's cry.<BR> +Above me there streams a light from heaven,<BR> + But I bow my head and veil my eyes<BR> +As I plough the fields with my fateful keel<BR> + And sow the highways with tears and sighs—<BR> + And all for the Vaterland!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +And hate is the banner I unfurl so wide<BR> + That its blood-dripp'd folds may catch the breeze;<BR> +That e'en from the balcony of heaven on high<BR> + May be seen this banner on all the seas.<BR> +No triumph of arms is my flight by night,<BR> + It is only a part of a murderous raid:<BR> +Dropping a bomb on an innocent child<BR> + Or a crowing babe in its cradle laid—<BR> + And all for the Vaterland!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Thomas Walsh.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="sock"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +"SOCK IT TO 'EM"<BR> +</H3> + +<P STYLE="margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%"> +"A Canadian lieutenant writes his mother from the front that what he +most needs for the winter is good warm socks."—<I>Press Despatch</I>. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Yes, Wilhelm, sure you'll get it,<BR> + The storm is o'er your head;<BR> +It is bursting in the trenches<BR> + And you're just as good as dead.<BR> +You put your foot on Belgium<BR> + And defied your fate and doom,<BR> +And now the whole world hates you<BR> + And the cry is "Sock it to 'em!"<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +True, your Taubchens still are sailing,<BR> + But your battleships are not;<BR> +They are coop'd up in a corner<BR> + Save the submerg'd ones that fought.<BR> +You are saving time and fuel,<BR> + But you're sad and filled with gloom,<BR> +For the very winds are whispering<BR> + "Blow hard and sock it to 'em."<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +You have sought more spacious realm<BR> + In the free and genial sun:<BR> +Has your sceptre widened any<BR> + With the salvo of each gun?<BR> +Your "World-Power" seems to narrow,<BR> + And your hope lies in a tomb,<BR> +While dark Fate weaves your chaplet<BR> + And whispers "Sock it to 'em!"<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Theodore Botrel.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="langemarck"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +LANGEMARCK<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +A glory lights the skies of Flanders<BR> + Where the blood-stained fields lie bare,<BR> +Where the clouds of war have gathered,<BR> + Built their parapets in the air;<BR> +Halted stands the Teuton army,<BR> + Checked its onslaught at a sign;<BR> +Forward roll the warlike forces,<BR> + Sons of Canada in line.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Let them taste of Northern courage<BR> + Where the lordly maple grows;<BR> +Let them face the heroes nurtured<BR> + Where the stars have wed the snows;<BR> +We are sons of sires undaunted,<BR> + Children of the hills and plains;<BR> +Ours a courage born of duty,<BR> + Pluck and dash of many strains.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Tell it to our children's children<BR> + How Canadians saved the day;<BR> +Write it with the pen of history,<BR> + Sing it as a fireside lay;<BR> +How at Langemarck in Flanders,<BR> + Though the odds were eight to one,<BR> +Our Canadians stood unbroken,<BR> + Sword to sword, and gun to gun.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Sir Wilfrid Laurier.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="bugle"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE BUGLE CALL<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Do you hear the call of our Mother,<BR> + From over the sea, from over the sea?<BR> +The call to her children, in every land;<BR> +To her sons on Afric's far-stretch'd veldt;<BR> +To her dark-skinned children on India's shore,<BR> +Whose souls are nourish'd on Aryan lore;<BR> +To her sons of the Northland where frosty stars<BR> +Glitter and shine like a helmet of Mars;<BR> + Do you hear the call of our Mother?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Do you hear the call of our Mother<BR> + From over the sea, from over the sea?<BR> +The call to Australia's legions strong,<BR> +That move with the might and stealth of a wave;<BR> +To the men of the camp and men of the field,<BR> +Whose courage has taught them never to yield;<BR> +To the men whose counsel has saved the State,<BR> +And thwarted the plans of impending fate;<BR> + Do you hear the call of our Mother?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Do you hear the call of our Mother<BR> + From over the sea, from over the sea?<BR> +To the little cot on the wind-swept hill;<BR> +To the lordly mansion in the city street;<BR> +To her sons who toil in the forest deep<BR> +Or bind the sheaves where the reapers reap;<BR> +To her children scattered far East and West;<BR> +To her sons who joy in her Freedom Blest;<BR> + Do you hear the call of our Mother?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Major-General Sir Sam Hughes.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="mission"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +HIS MISSION<BR> +</H3> + +<P STYLE="margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%"> +"A German will teach Irish at the University of Illinois, beginning in +February, when Dr. Kuno E. Meyer of the University of Berlin will +become visiting professor of the Celtic language and +literature."—<I>Press Despatch</I>. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Go back, dear Kuno, to the Poles and Alsatians,<BR> + And teach them the language your nation has robbed;<BR> +Piece out their dreams of new glory and freedom;<BR> + Bring joy to the hearts where the children have sobbed.<BR> +We love the old Celtic tongue, vibrant with music,<BR> + As it speaks to our hearts thro' the chords of long years,<BR> +But we don't want your lessons, though laden with "<I>Kultur</I>,"<BR> + From a land where Alsatians and Poles are in tears.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Go back, Herr Professor, your mission is ended,<BR> + For, though your gifts are many, you are "<I>ausgespielt</I>";<BR> +Go back and receive your "Kreuz von Eisen,"<BR> + For we don't like the way that you're "<I>ausgebild't</I>."<BR> +The stars that burn with the true light of freedom,<BR> + In this giant new world, with its endless day,<BR> +Have nothing in common with your satellite planets,<BR> + And care not to shine on your Eagle's prey.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Dr. Douglas Hyde.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="achilles"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +ACHILLES' TOMB<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Achilles awoke in his ancient tomb<BR> +Hard by the coast of Troy;<BR> +He rattled his armor now full of dust<BR> +And rubbed his eyes like a boy,<BR> +As he gazed on the ships of the allied fleet,<BR> +Ploughing the seas from afar,<BR> +Bent on their course to the Dardanelles<BR> +'Neath the light of Victory's star.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +"Why, I've been asleep," Achilles said,<BR> +"On the windy plains of Troy;<BR> +Three thousand years have turned to dust<BR> +With their maddening mirth and joy;<BR> +Yet it seems but a day since Ilium fell,<BR> +Since Sinon spun out his tale,<BR> +And the Greeks returned from Tenedos<BR> +With a light and prosperous gale.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +"Three thousand years is a long, long time,<BR> +But I'll doze for a thousand more;<BR> +For I'm sick of the bluff of the Teuton hosts<BR> +And the gas from each army corps.<BR> +So lay me down in my ancient tomb,<BR> +Where the Phrygian winds sweep by,<BR> +And I'll dream of the days when heroes fought,<BR> +'Round the lofty walls of Troy."<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Very Rev. W. R. Harris, D.D.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chrism"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE CHRISM OF KINGS<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +In the morn of the world, at the daybreak of time,<BR> + When Kingdoms were few and Empires unknown,<BR> +God searched for a Ruler to sceptre the land,<BR> + And gather the harvest from the seed He had sown.<BR> +He found a young Shepherd boy watching his flock<BR> + Where the mountains looked down on deep meadows of green;<BR> +He hailed the young Shepherd boy king of the land<BR> + And anointed his brow with a Chrism unseen.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +He placed in his frail hands the sceptre of power,<BR> +And taught his young heart all the wisdom of love;<BR> +He gave him the vision of prophet and priest,<BR> +And dowered him with counsel and light from above.<BR> +But alas! came a day when the Shepherd forgot<BR> +And heaped on his realm all the woes that war brings,<BR> +And bartering his purple for the greed of his heart<BR> +He lost both the sceptre and Chrism of Kings.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Miss Katherine Brégy.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="tipperary"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +TIPPERARY<BR> +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +(New version.)<BR> +</H4> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +I'm not going to Tipperary for I've better work to do,<BR> +I am dreaming of a new device to catch each German crew;<BR> +And when we've chased them thro' the deep, <I>Ach Gott!</I> what<BR> + fun there'll be<BR> +Rounding up the Teuton "subs" in the blue and vasty sea.<BR> + So, good-bye, Tipperary! Farewell, Slieve-na-mon!<BR> + I leave you for a season to chase the murderous Hun;<BR> + Von Tirpitz knows their hiding-place and I'll find out, too,<BR> + So, good-bye, Tipperary, till we've caught each pirate crew.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Then I'll go to Tipperary with its hills of emerald green,<BR> +Where the skies are full of splendor and each peasant girl a queen;<BR> +Where the men know naught but honor and where duty is their goal;<BR> +Where the shadows from the mountains are but sunlight to the soul.<BR> + So, good-bye, Tipperary, till we've rounded up each crew,<BR> + Then I'll turn my face to greet you for to you I'll e'er be true;<BR> + So I'm off to chase the pirates and the ocean aisles to sweep,<BR> + <I>Ach Himmel</I>, Tipperary! there'll be fun upon the deep.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Rev. J. B. Bollard.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="gather"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +GATHER THE HARVEST<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Gather the harvest though reaped in death,<BR> + Under the pale, pale moon;<BR> +For the lilies that joyed in the breath of morn<BR> + Shall know not the ardor of noon:<BR> +So, the souls that grow strong, in patriot love,<BR> + Shall be garnered on Death's dark field,<BR> +Ere the noontide rays have touched the vale<BR> + And burnished with gold life's shield.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Gather the harvest though reaped in death,<BR> + Where the sword has struck for Right,<BR> +And cleft a way for Freedom's path,<BR> + Through the dark and tremulous night:<BR> +For the golden grain on the altar flames<BR> + And lights each pilgrim throng,<BR> +As they meet in joy 'round that altar bright<BR> + Where Justice shall right each wrong.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For Miss Helen Merrill.</I><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="place"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE KAISER'S "PLACE IN THE SUN"<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +The Kaiser is seeking "a place in the Sun"<BR> + But I fear he'll have to wait,<BR> +Till another eclipse has dulled its face<BR> + And the Allies have woven his fate:<BR> +For the "spots" on the Sun are all occupied<BR> + With a race descended from Mars;<BR> +So there's no place in the heavens for <I>schrecklich</I> Wilhelm,<BR> + Not even among the Stars.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +What boots it, Wilhelm, that your guns are big,<BR> + And your Zeppelins soar by night,<BR> +Since against you are leagued the earth and stars<BR> + And you're sure to lose in the fight.<BR> +You have drenched the world with heroic blood,<BR> + And stained the record of Man,<BR> +But you'll presently get your "place in the Sun,"<BR> + Yes, the hottest since time began,<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<I>For T. 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