The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-05-05
Leers from her island lair
Unleashing on their quarry
Her hell-hounds long delayed:
This is no Jameson foray,
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ton that has fallen upon England
y England, once a nation
Ot generous, just renown,
How swift to degradations
Can majesty go down!
Your poets, once exhorters
To nobleness OF life,
Now squeak to eartll's. four quarters
A creed of greed and strife
Erst on your meadows, ripping
With 10y, a Shakespeare smiled:
Now you are sib to Kpling-
Hall devil and hal: Child
But louder than his yelling,
His gaudy, bawdy rhyme,
Comes deep music, swelling
With tears from every cline.
We hear that worldwide sorrow,
More ceascless than the sea.
Presageful OF that morrow,
When England shall not be.
Lands We have laid ban on
Echo the Sepoy's yell,
Tied to your Christian cannon,
Blown to your Christian helil
The poets reference to the Sepoys
says Mr. Carleton, the editor, in note
TO stanza II appears to be grilnly sub
stantiated by the following passage
from British India" by II. w. Frazer,
/. l.. B. l. c. S.: -Four tall (Sepoy)
grcnadiers, who had often led their
comrades in many an action, and held
as right the foremost post in hours
OF peril, now stepped forward and
claimed the privilege of dying first OF
those condemned to death for mutiny.
They were tied to guns and blown to
pieces. Twenty-four of the Sepoys had
the same retribution melted out to them
by the unflinching command af Major
Hector Munro, who knew the danger
that lurlled beneath the rebellion not
speedily rcprcsscd"
The notes which are appended to this
poem while they contain no word OF
personal opinion form an array OF facts
and figures concerning England's rec
ord as pirate nation, that will make
every Englishman who reads them
shrink into himself with horror, if he
possesses the slightest tingc OF honor
and humanity. Says Mr.. Austin:
Forget We Byron's warning
How eagerly the world
Prays for that cloudless warning
That sees your banner furled
And in your gates the stranger:
While DER the joyous main,
To save from God, the Avenger,
We call to US in vain?
Anent which Mr.. Carleton remarks
IF she could only know how her great
name is through the world abhorred;
how eager all the earth is for the blow
that shall lay her bosom to the sword
has recently been emphasized by the
declaration of an English statesman
that England has never been so thor
oughly hated by the world as now Is
the dies irac dawning at last, or must
humanity continc to cry, How long,
o Lord, how long,"
But Mr.. Austin's lofty poem is not in
spired with hatred or blind prejudice
against England:
To England's real splendors
Our spirit is not blind:
Our heart glad tribute renders
Her victors of the mind;
Shakespeare, the starry-shining, !:
With wit and wisdom rife;
Mere, at the block, resigning
With grace his lofty life =
Mr.. Austin disposcs OF the cant which
attempts to justify national thevcry
under the specious plea of sacred duty
or manifest destiny in concluding
stanZa:
There is no white mans burden
Save to reform himself;
True good to seek for guerdon-
Not further powerya and peli;
And If my own dear nation
Marches to England's drum.
Her just humiliation
Cannot too quickly come.
All honor to an American poet who
rcprovcs the sordid Anglomaniacs and
solcmnly warns his genuine countrymen
in manner as graceful and musical as
it is earnest and powerful.
Candidates for West Point.
Those desiring to take the examina-
ton for entrance to West Point will re-
port at the Central High School, Min
ncapolis on Saturday, May 26, at 8 a.
m. All candidates must be bona fde
residents Of Hcnnepin county. The one
attaining the highest rank in the exam
nation will receive the appointment,
and the one ranking second will be ap-