Bleeding Mexico.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1914, Page 2

Bleeding Mexico.

(Jjy WALT MASUiV)

In Mexico, in other days, fair ma ideas from their windows smiled. while lovers sang their buoyant lays, describing passions deep and wild, liut that was in the dear old times before reformers look (he helm, and filled with sorrows, tears and rimes, that once serene and happy realm. In Mexico, some years ago, the mother rocked her child to sleep, and prayed, in accents sweet and low, that holy saints the child might Keep. But that was when the Tyrani held his country free from strife and storm, before the Patriots rebelled, and waved the banner of reform. But now the land is slark and red where once the peasant turned (he sods: the mother weeps above her dead, and shakes her list at saints and god,<. In Mexico the children played, through balmy evenings, on the green : and little lad and maid no ghost ol (rouble e're had seen. Bui now i heir liearis are chilled with tear, their souls are shrunken with their pain: for death is ever stalking near and dead men lie in every hinc-. Ain Mexico. where grief had 111 1 when once old tilings woie tln-mvii. -liunM to.'li 111" „f 11,, to l-'l AVl> " Knough'' alon».