<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">To Wilhelm II.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">You</span> sowed the seas with death and filled the world with weeping,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You whose pride was glutted with an unmeasured pain,</p><p class="line">You who fired on drowning lads, threw bombs on children sleeping,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You who wrecked the Rose of Rheims, you who sacked Louvain;</p><p class="line">Caitiff, you shall see ere your vile day is ended,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Springing from the blood of those unnumbered slain</p><p class="line">Europe's one Republic rise serene and splendid,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Happy lands and holy seas from Russia unto Spain</p></div><p class="byline">R. L. GALES.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War