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322

SONNET V
VICTORY

[_]

At the General Election of January, 1910, the Unionist Party, in the face of lying and misrepresentation unprecedented in English electoral history, secured a net gain of 105 seats.

The powers of darkness shudder, as the morn
Breaks, and a newer nobler day begun
Restores to England gladness and the sun.
'Mid lies and deeds too base for aught but scorn
Rulers 'mid lies and base devices born
Feel death upon them, see their brief reign done,
And watch the swift sands through the hour-glass run,
Crime-smeared, by foul dissensions racked and torn.
The traitors slowly pass into the night
With furtive wolf-like gaze and shackled hands,
While England in the golden sunlight stands,
Her eyes made glorious with imperial light,
And one wild trumpet-blast proclaims her free
From dawn to sunset and from sea to sea.
February 6, 1910.