The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-17

Halls
The soul Of music shed.
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
Az Il that soul were fed. Is
g sleeps the pride Of former days.
so glory:s thrill is DER.
And hearts, that once beat high With
praise,
Nov feel that pulse no more.
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp Of Tara swells:
The chord alone that breaks at
st night.
It's tale Of ruin tells.
Thus freedom now SO seldom wakes,
The only throb she gives.
e when some heart indignant
breaks.
10 show that still she lives.
The above lines were written by
Thomas Moore. the Irish poet. de-
scrihtng the lament Of his wounded
and abused land. yet how we'll does
" describe conditions in Belgium to-
day where the nation is again endur-
ing bondage after centuries Of OPP
preston!
Even the plight Of ireland with
her hundreds Of years of British op-
! preston and landlord aggrandize-
ment can be no more pathetic and
has been no more severe than the
fate Belgium has suffered in past
centuries.
Today she is ruined nation, her
fields destroyed, her ancient mas
sSterpieces Of art and architecture
either IN ruins or partly destroyed
y BY German shells and her people
starving.
Hundreds have fed to England
and just recently a. number Of
her fatherless children have been
shipped to New York in the hope
they will be adopted and in their
new homes and new country forget
the ravishes and injustices to which
they have been unjustly subjected,
for whether Germany is to blame for
the invasion Of the war or whether
France and England duped her into
entering the war it cannot be doubt
+ ed that she is the greatest sufferer of
the whole affair.
THE SAQDEsT
MONARCH.
Today King Albert Of Belgium is
the saddest monarch in the world. .
His throne has been shattered be-
meath him and his country has
passed into the hands Of the enemy.
His position and that Of Belgium
can well be compared with that Of
ireland at the time that Roderick
OConnor and st. Laurence o'Toole
were defeated by the visigoths, their
country overrun and their armies
beaten back.
With Roderick o'Connor ended the
monarch Of Ireland. and history at
it, present writing seems to appoint
TO King. Albert as the last monarch
Of the devastated country, for Bel
GUM ever will remain as sort Of
bumper between Germany and her
foe France, and indications are
that the -outrages of the years 1914
and 1916 and perhaps 1916 and 1917
win never be wiped out. and peace
and brotherly love restored between
the two nations until the end Of
time.
Belgium. even had 1t not main
tanned Its rights Of sovereignty with
the arms and lives of its soldiers.
would have been wrecked and ruined
before the end Of the war. for it vas
the logical battle-ground Of the west
erh theater Of war.
The theory that Belgium was Civ
en- aid by the allies before the out
break Of the great war seems to be
the most tenable.
The little country realized for
years that there eventually would be
war and that it would be in the way.
when the great avalanche came
from Germany. It felt that should
II ally itself with Germany and per-
NIT It free passage of Its troops that
Il might receive some measure OF
election and indemnity, yet it new
er could hope for its permanent in
dependence. It ever would remain
the bumper. the battle ground on
Which France and Germany or Eng
land and Germany in the future
s would light out their wars.
N, casting It's lot with the cause Of
the allies it had hope that were they
victorious the independence of Bel
GUM would forever be established.
the Teutons would be dealt a blow.
from which they would not recover
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