Forget not: in Thy book record their groans Slain by the bloody Piemontese, that rolled To Heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant: that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt Thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. John Milton 187 ON THE TURKISH MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS IN 18951 WHAT profits it, O England, to prevail In arts and arms, and mighty realms subdue, And ocean with thine argosies bestrew, And wrest thy tribute from each golden gale, Of women martyred by the turbaned crew We deemed of old thou held'st a charge from Him To smite the wronger with thy destined rod. Wait'st thou His sign? Enough, the unanswered cry The gathering blackness of the frown of God! William Watson 1 Reprinted through special arrangement with Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. 88 ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC1 Ο NCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free; When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade William Wordsworth 1 By Napoleon, in 1797. Parts of the sonnet are illustrated by the ollowing extract from a letter dated July 1, 1621: "These wishes come o you from Venice, a place where there is nothing wanting that heart an wish; renowned Venice, the admired'st city in the world, a city that 11 Europe is bound unto, for she is her greatest rampart against that uge Eastern tyrant, the Turk, by sea; else, I believe, he had overrun Il Christendom by this time. Against him this city hath performed otable exploits, and not only against him, but divers others; she hath estored emperors to their thrones, and popes to their chairs, and with er galleys often preserved St. Peter's bark from sinking; for which, y way of reward, one of his successors espoused her to the sea, which narriage is solemnly renewed every year in solemn procession by the Doge and all the Clarissimos, and a gold ring cast into the sea out f the great Galeasse, called the Bucentoro, wherein the first ceremony was performed by the pope himself, above three hundred years since, nd they say it is the self-same vessel still, though often put upon areen, and trimmed" (James Howell to Dr. Francis Mansell). 189 THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJU GATION OF SWITZERLAND1 190 T WO voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains; each a mighty voice: They were thy chosen music, Liberty! Thou fought'st against him; but hast vainly striven: William Wordsworth TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE 2 'OUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plow 1 By the French, in 1798. 2 A negro, born a slave in San Domingo. He acquired an education, too part in the disturbances beginning with an insurrection of blacks in 1791 and ten years later had made himself master of the island-at the time titular French possession. Napoleon determined to assert French supremacy Fierce warfare ensued. In the end L'Ouverture was treacherously seize and conveyed to France, where he died in a prison on April 27, 180 Wordsworth's sonnet was written in August, 1802. Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind And love, and man's unconquerable mind. William Wordsworth 191 IT is not to be thought of that the Flood open sea Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, unwithstood," That this most famous stream in bogs and sands William Wordsworth 1921 A NOTHER year!-another deadly blow! And we are left, or shall be left, alone; The last that dare to struggle with the Foe. 1 Dated November, 1806. Occasioned by Napoleon's victory at Jena and the consequent downfall of Prussia. October 26. French troops entered Berlin on 'Tis well! from this day forward we shall know That by our own right hands it must be wrought; William Wordsworth 193 I GRIEVED for Buonaparté, with a vain. And an unthinking grief! The tenderest mood H |