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Show THE WHITE SLAVE. (On Reading Reginald Wright Kauf- mann's "The House of Bondage.'') You who are moved to grief by somo old talo Of virtue wronged or innocence oppressed op-pressed Whoso hearts have echoed to tho anguished an-guished wail Of Niobe, the mother dispossessed disposses-sed Or shared the chained Andromeda's wild dread While the sea monster threatened you whose tear For hapless Desdemona has been shed, Or for joung Juliet and her fate austere Put by these shadowy creatures of tho mind! Hero there is nobler matter for your grief. To tears from living eyes will you bo blind? ' Or deaf when living lips Implore relief? re-lief? An actual Andromeda today Cries from her fetters on our Christian Chris-tian walls, A fouler monster Is there here to no new Perseus heed theao poignant calls? W R. B , in Chicago Public. |