DEUS VULT.
By Allen Eastman Cross.
“It is time that one general shout of execration—not of men, but of deeds—one general shout of execration, directed against deeds of wickedness, should rise from outraged humanity.”—Gladstone’s Armenian address at Chester.
No tomb of death shall be our guest
Wherein the Lord of Life may rest.
No empty sepulcher of stone
Across the world makes bitter moan,
But Christian hearts that break and bleed
For our avenging pity plead.
O brothers, for our brothers’ sake
Let the crusading spirit wake!
O Christian England, ’tis the Christ
By Moslem hands is sacrificed!
Away, away with hollow words,
Now sheath our speech, unsheath our sword!
God wills: The guns of Christendom
Proclaim the tyrant’s doom has come!