Do you wonder that the members of the British Seamen's Union have taken a pledge, "No peace until the sea is free from Hun outrages"; and that they have declared a boycott on all German ships, cargoes, and sailors for seven years after the war? Sailors of other nations are joining with the British in this boycott.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The thronèd monarch better than his crown:
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It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.
Shakespeare.
DARING THE UNDARABLE[ToC]
We are thirty in the hands of Fate
And thirty-one with Death, our mate.
So sang the men who, with D'Annunzio, the Italian poet and hero, set out "to dare the undarable."