<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Louvain.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Has</span> History a direr deed to show</p><p class="line">Than this? Rests any darker, deadlier stain</p><p class="line">On Attila's renown? Was Tamburlaine</p><p class="line">To anguish'd human kind a fiercer foe</p><p class="line">Than Germany's mad War-Lord? Blow on blow</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">He overtops the iniquities of Spain,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Outdoes the branded crimes of Alva's reign,</p><p class="line">And drags his country's glory low, how low!</p><p class="line">The world looks on appalled: and not alone</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We mortals -- shuddering gaze the mighty dead.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Luther, Kant, Goethe, Bach, and Beethoven</p><p class="line">Ask "Are these Germans? Nay, then, we disown</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Our kinship with a breed reversive-bred,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Who war on arts and learning. We were Men."</p></div><p class="byline">WILLIAM ARCHER. Observer, August 30th, 1914. </p></body></html> · Great War