<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">To the German Emperor,<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><em>after the sack of Louvain</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WHEREFORE are men amazed at thee, thou Blot</p><p class="line">On the fair script of Time, thou sceptred Smear</p><p class="line">Across the Day? Thou wert divulged full clear--</p><p class="line">Hell's sponsor--long ago! Has earth forgot</p><p class="line">Thy benison on a monster reeking hot</p><p class="line">From shambles bloody as these,--thy orient peer,</p><p class="line">Thy heart's mate, and infernal comrade dear ?</p><p class="line">His red embrace do men remember not ?</p><p class="line">Fall'n is thy fellow and withered from the scene:</p><p class="line">Follow him thou ! And when the hounds of doom</p><p class="line">Rend thee, and for thy carrion there hath been</p><p class="line">Fit dust-heap found, and no relenting broom,</p><p class="line">Purged be Life's palace of thy trail unclean,</p><p class="line">And Earth made bride-sweet with returning bloom.</p></div></body></html> · Great War