MORE "GLORY."

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 153, 12 January 1871, Page 7

MORE "GLORY."

[There are IjLD wounded women and children in thrt hospitals. One woman lay without her hai;f), by her side was her little boy without a fott. The same bomb that had thus mutilated mother and son had killed the baby th.it was in her arms, and also her husband i v 1 er side. — Letter from Strobburg, in the 'Echo.'] As upwards flies the blood, to heaven high, Of gi ntle woman and of little child, As shrieking men in mortal agony lie Cursng their dreadful fate in ravings, wild, Thesbtlls hiss on and tell their bloody sioiy, ■\Vh:l° "officers and men are crowned with glory !" Of couise ! But what had SHE to do with war, Poor woman, with the baby at her breast ? What vas the infant's crime ? It could not mar Either tiiumphant inarch or soldier's rest. The shells must answer with their awful story, '" That officers and men be crowned with glory !" And then the poor maiin'd boy— what had HE done To v use the wrath of the besieging foe ? And shall not he, thro' life, despise and shun The men who laid his loving father low ? The muul'rous shell burnt into him the story "How officers and men were crowned with glory !" '"How long, O Lord, how long?" crush'd nations cry, As maid and matron mourn the hapless fate Of lover, husband, sou, who murdered lie Undei the turf near Strasburg's shattered gate. SIihIIM ar go on ? O yes-the old, old story— That kings may rule o'er subjects "crowned with glory !"

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