Panama and Other Poems Narrative and Occasional By Stephen Phillips: With a Frontispiece by Joseph Pennell |
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TRIPOLI
“Bring forth the halt, the crippled and the blind,“Mother and wife and child pursue and find!
“To set them with their backs against the wall:
“Fire!” On their faces they in order fall,
Yet none of them exclaims aloud or calls;
The reeking Christian curses under breath
The Moslem deep indifference to death.
To-night shall Garibaldi roam thy ways,
Tripoli, and men dead in splendid days,
Stung from their graves in anguish of amaze.
Waker of lyric gladness, Italy,
Here hast thou raised a deep discordant cry.
Shall all thy warbled airs of liquid sound
Excuse these hooded bodies on the ground?
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Avail this fierce iniquity to blot?
Mother of music and to colour wed;
What music this! What colour running red?
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