(@3After reading of the affectionate desire of Germany "to get closer to France," expressed by the German Secretary of State to the British Ambassador at Berlin, as published in the British White Papers@1. With love are you gone mad, O lover of France, That you should be embracing with your arms Her gory body for the gore that warms Only a monster in his dalliance? Alas! she is alive with her alarms, Unwilling yet for the enraged romance. Assault her sacredness of Paris, lance Her flank with such a wound as has its charms. For you who want for your obscene amours The body of a soul that is not yours, For you who want a wound to enter by, For you who want a corpse upon your heart. Coupling with France if France would only die, Not yours the human vow: "@3Till death us part!@1" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIRTH by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN POPPY: FANTASTIC EXTRAVAGANCE by FRANCIS THOMPSON THE MYSTIC by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 4. FOR FRANCES ANN by ALBERTA BANCROFT THE LOVER'S VIGIL by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |