New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-01

DnSe Of Avis Armenian Relief Fund. and sent
with the Committees compliments, TO the EDITOR OK
The Tribune)
Dead by their ravaged holds
And blackened rooftrees chill
To-day our martyred brethren lie.
White on the blue autumnal sky,
Ararat's sacred hill
On the iOrlorn and ruined PLAIN
Uncaring seems 10 smile
Uncaring for the blood the wrong the guAe'
The hopeless griefs, the oft-repeated pam.
The innocent lives defiled lie supplicatons VAN
The spoller robs and preys,
With rape and torture for mis- daily work
Unchecked the wolfsh Kurd torments and slay2
The obscene, !nelfable Turk.
False heart and gloZing tongue,
Fills all the hapless land with lust and blood.
Into the murderpits are fLng -
The sire, the mother with her UNBORN chlu'
The virgin lives defled.
Or II escape there be, It's through the shame
OF souls too weak to avow the Holy name
Or theirs who from the dreadful preciplce,
Yelling their desperate eyes.
Plunge with their children through the void, %
gain.
Dying release from pain
What? Has Gods thought forgot
His peoples woes? Doth His averted ear
No more their cries Of hopeless anguish near.
The wall for precious lives Whlcn now are H"''
Shall not the a-see.ng Eye
Look downward from the dumb. unheedilg sV
And with a glance confound the might OF III!
Shall the oppressor still
Thro endless aeons wreak his nendish WILL
Ravsh and rob and murder In the name
OF that dark Antichrist whose rule of shame
Bghts the dead East: for whom the spear NV
sword,
And ruthless horrors Of unsparng war
Are weapons filter far 49,
Than are the futile forgeries OF His Word;
Who. knowing not compassion, yet makes su'~
With prayer from lips impure,
or Paradisc-no place Of Innocence
Or Whitley winged soaring Hope immense
But foul Lazar-house OF Lust and Sense!
And this our Europe strong
Which at a common altar boasts n knee,
Shall no compassionate yearning come TO NOV"
No STRINGS of fraternal love, ,,
For these our brothers who nave piNeu >" ""e'
Shall She no pity feel -
For these. the martyrs Of our Faith VINO sish'
Treading the cold and sunless ways Oh uc"'"
Long they gain 10 die? , ,,..
Strong Russia. champion or the 'nris'."" .aAt
France thro' whose soul. 100 generous 10 iorse~
The ardor of st. Louis pulses yet .
Our noble England. with the years inereaS'''
To hold the gorgeous Orient IN zee
And her great eldest daughter. she
Who sits august and free.
A crowned Commonwealth from sea to sea-,
Shall these unmoved by the long Past oi PAM
Wait iii the tide OF blood returns again
And watch again their helpless brethren die,
These who upheld spared the waning secular
lie?
Nay nay. II is enough enough' No more
Shall black Oppression rule. Her reign Is o ef'
No more, on. Earth No more
No more, Forbid Il. Heaven!
Arise. on. puissant Christendom. be strong, -,
Gods voice within you calls the voice VI Z "'S'
Confound this monstrous tyranny OF wto"e
Let Love prevail. not Hate - ,,A.A
With you the Future lies. Twere shai"e 'D
IL mutual jealousies. if coward tears' r,
Adding fresh force to swell the sum or III!
Prolonged the accursed reign OF pain ana tear"
And babe again a hapess nation bleed -.
Succor the weak Drive back their pitliess ioeS
7 or NOT desnair afiiict your brethren still
Let the new-coming Age. happier Birth
Bless these waste places Of the SUFFERING rsr'"'
Let Peace. with Law, the TRANQUIL NaneSs "''
Ana make the desert blossom as the Rose
August IT. 1895. LEWIS Mo"