Show WAR AR SONGS S OF THE NATIONS NATIONS' By HERBERT QUICK As yet et this war wat has not found Its p poet t. t The English bards have none of or them risen above the peace level and most moat of or them h hive have c seemed depressed and stupefied stupefied stu stu- by the enormousness of the con- con Most other writers writers' have have- felt the amo sense zene of ot Inadequacy r Poetry try Is not riot so co brutal as in tho the days when the minstrel min inn litrel reveled re in th that t pigmy pigny slaughter under the topless tOt towers or of or Ilium or In Inthe the he field of or Cho Chevy Chase hase Said ald Captain Philip Dont Don't cheer boys Tho The poor devils arc are dying Tho The poets of the world are conscious that tho the poor I devils de are dying Song will burst forth but it will m not be song o-ng glorifying bat bat- tle tie In the meantime men nen by thousands are aro arod d dying to lo the songs of tho 1110 past Some writer who heard the German Gennan populace Watch the Rhine during dur singing The on ing the mobilization called this great Ireat hymn a steel bar against the tho rapier ra of or The Fhe Marseillaise I do not se see tho the comparison The Th Watch on the Rhine Is 13 old fashioned pa pa- It is 55 filled tilled with Germanic de do- do termination It breathes unconquerable alor valor So long lone as blood shall shan warm our veins vein While for tor ono opo sword st one hand remains One arm ami to bear a gun remains Shall foot of ot toeman tread thy shore 7 Dear fatherland no fear be thins firm stands thy y guard along the Rhine This h hymn mn d does s not even the present German attitude of ot Deutschland Deutschland Over All AU It Is a a. hymn of German defiance denance to Aggression and cannot carry its full fun m meaning save uve when whon and whore bore the German defends deronde his lila land Instead in instead In In- stead of ot sweeping over the lands of oth others When hen the Rhine was the thc German frontier fron ron tier and nd Germany German was WiS on the tho defensive it was a perfect hymn The Hatch Vatch atch on the Rhine may Y be not compared with a steel bar But The Marseillaise is something more than titan a rapier It ha has hu what the Cerman German German Ger Ger- man hymn lacks lacks lacks-a a sociological cance It Is a olcan a n. cOt na conflagration ahon A flood I wish we ha had a national hymn one half so EO expressive of our destiny and our oui best aspirations I IYa Y Ya ft sons sana of or Franco France a awake wake to glory Hark hark what m myriads ol nid you ou rise rifel Your children wives and grand boa hoary hoary- r Behold their tears and hear their erica cries Shall 11 lawless tyrants m mischief breeding With hireling host boat a L ruffian O. band Affright and desolate the he land laud While peace and liberty lie bleeding To To arms to arms ye YC brave I IThe The patriot sword ath March on march on all nIl hearts resolved I On liberty or dea death hl Tho The Watch on the Rhine words words and music music music-Is ts tho the best song sone In the world ex expressing expressing ex- ex I pressing nationality Tho Marseillaise se words and music ls is Is the greatest work ever thrown off ort by genius calling on the people to rise against tyranny It dill did dillmore more for liberty In the days when It was now new than soldiers In arms could have done Jone It made too tim armies of or the revolution involution Invincible It is as magical in the French and British and Belgian trenches trenches' today as it Il over was It Is 1 filled with a a. divine mad mad- ness It sets men mon wild with a furious devotion not devotion not to France not to lO any flag fine but to freedom It Is as aa powerful against a a. tyrant at home as 88 against an Invader And when the German people come to fight for far their freedom It will be their song Bong It is too gr great at for any anyone one land It Il is one of the glories of Dr France rance that she produced The Tho c Marseillaise tho the the war cry of or democracy |