Thy sons were slain, thy daughters sold
To serve the lusts of stranger lords.
For Attic might thou didst defy
Thy folk the foeman slew as sheep,
Across the years hear Belgium's cry--
"O Sister, of the Wine-Dark Deep,
"Whose cliffs gleam seaward roseate.
Not one of all my martyr roll
But keeps his faith inviolate,
Man kills our body, not our soul."
What America Can Do
By Lord Channing of Wellingborough.
Lord Channing, who makes the following suggestion to American
statesmen, was born in the United States of the well-known
Channings of Boston. His father was the Rev. W.H. Channing,
Chaplain of the House of Representatives during the civil war
and a close friend of President Lincoln. Lord Channing has
been for twenty-five years a member of the British Parliament,
and for the last three years a member of the House of Lords,
having been created first Baron of Wellingborough in 1912. He
is President of the British National Peace Congress.
To the Editor of The New York Times:
As a member of the British Legislature for a generation, and a lifelong
Liberal, and having also the closest ties of blood with America, and a
proud reverence for her ideals, I would wish, with the utmost respect,
to offer some comments on one specific aspect of present affairs, as
they affect America, which does not seem to have been marked off with
the distinctness its importance calls for.
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