BY
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
NEW YORK—JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON—JOHN LANE—THE BODLEY HEAD
MCMXV
Copyright, 1915, by
JOHN LANE COMPANY
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Co.
New York
To
His Majesty
ALBERT I.
King of the Belgians
THE HEROIC CAPTAIN
OF AN
HEROIC PEOPLE
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| To Belgium | [9] |
| The Silk-Hat Soldier | [11] |
| The Cry of the Little Peoples | [14] |
| The Illusion of War | [20] |
| Christmas in War-time | [22] |
| “Soldier Going to the War” | [29] |
| The Rainbow | [30] |
TO BELGIUM
Our tears, our songs, our laurels—what are these
To thee in thy Gethsemane of loss,
Stretched in thine unimagined agonies
On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross.
For such a world as this that thou shouldst die
Is price too vast—yet, Belgium, hadst thou sold
Thyself, O then had fled from out the earth
Honour for ever, and left only Gold.