Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — TO GERMANY [ARTICLE]

TO GERMANY

By GEORGE STERLING,

of the Vigilantes, Thy monstrousness stirs men no more to hate, • • But nausea. What defiled and fetid sea,. What dark abysses of putridity, Have belched thee? Thou hast reached the world too late, For with the , reptile is thy place end date; Yet must we love the saurian, as we Find It a gentle thing compared to thee Whose maw no blood of nurse or babe can sate. , t .•' The Abominable shall put by its crown Because of thee. Because of thee all speech Goes bankrupt, and Imagination gains No curse that does not bless thy black renown— Thou, who dost hold all Infamy in reach! Thou, with the blood of devils in thy veins! r London’s population Includes 4TV 000 persons who reside in flats.