THE “MURDERERS.”
Some lines addressed to the Master of the Murderers, by Sir Owen Seaman, inTunch : If I were asked what gives me most amaze Among your signs of mental aberration, I should select, from several curious traits, Your lack of commonplace imagination. You seem to think, if once you win the day, You justify your means ; it won’t much matter What laws of man you broke to get your way, What rules of chivalry you chose to shatter. Is that your reading of the glass of Time ? And has your swollen head become so rotten That you suppose success could cancel crime, Or murder in its triumph be forgotten ? Man shall not live, 0 King, by bread alone, Though spiced with blood ot innocent lives for leaven : He must have breath of honour round him blown, As vital as the very air of Heaven. What should it serve you, though your end were won, And earth were made a mat to wipe your hoot on, If every decent race beneath the sun Spits for contempt upon the name of Teuton ?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1414, 22 June 1915, Page 4
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181THE “MURDERERS.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1414, 22 June 1915, Page 4
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