<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Women of Belgium to the Women of England.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Oh</span>, English women! see, our country's dying;</p><p class="line">Her life-blood from her gaping wounds is sighing,</p><p class="line">Her bitter wrongs to God for vengeance crying!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The Iron hand has struck, but in the smiting</p><p class="line">Its own dishonour on the wall is writing,</p><p class="line">And Belgium's funeral pyre the world is lighting.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">If we had failed or shrunk before the paying,</p><p class="line">If we had saved our dearest from the slaying,</p><p class="line">What price had you not paid for the delaying?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Oh, mothers! who your man-grown sons are keeping,</p><p class="line">Oh, fathers! to the patriot's duty, sleeping,</p><p class="line">Oh, lovers! at the thought of parting, weeping,</p><p class="line">Awake, and give us Men to do our Reaping!</p></div><p class="byline">MARY BOOTH.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War