WOMEN’S REPROACH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 7

WOMEN’S REPROACH.

Why boast we thus of' proffer’d aid in gold or souls? Why tall> of Kaiser’s pow’r or shrapnel shell ? No monarch’s pow’r had ever thus defied the world, As all the mothers of the Huns could tell. While troops of merry German children grew ■ By Danube and the Rhine, and mothers worked ; i With selfish aims and empty cradles, earing naught, WE sat in empty homes and duty shirked. What pow’r had France’s empty cradle beds beside The mighty host of the unnumber’d Hun ? How can ye boast with glowing eye and pride of heart, “I. too. have given; T gave my only one.” Why had ye only one to give? Rather he dumb Beside the silent grief of some brave heart, > Who, sending forth her three or four, hath better played Throughout the years gone by, a braver part. Say not, this fray is but a thing of months or days; But rather that long years ago ’twas well begun, When German mothers, spite of life’s hard toil, Tended their cradles b ywarm fire or sun. Are we still blinded that we cannot see e’en yet How we have helped to multiply our dead ? We had ton few to meet the unrelenting foe; Let us repent, and humbly how our head. —ELS IE M. BEMBRICK.