Poëzie-album, item 3

• October 24, 2017 20:38:12 Thomas A. Lingner

  To Belgium! 

  Brave Belgium! T'was thee stood in the stream, damming the flood 
  

  That otherwise had swept o'er France and England.
  

  For us thy soldiers died; for us

  Thy women wept; for us thy children desolate

  Torn from their homes and toss't adrift:

  For us the martyrdom of innocents, the bodies bruised, the  souls distraught.

  For us today in  Holland  ruin the thriving land

  That once was Belgium, happy and prosperous.

  Rather than England should forget her debt

  Let her seas recede. Her orchard fruitless, her fields be barren,

   Her  cities shattered like Louvain or as Ypres laid level with the  stones .

  But England never can forget. T'is written

  On her annals for all time

  That harassed, vexed, herself in tears

  For the sons  taken  from her

   How will our land come  forth to comfort and relieve

  Those who had saved her from their  recent  bitter plight,

  No longer Belgians, strangers, as something foreign,

   Namely  Heroes,  ...  in grandeur, queenly crowned,

  But now and through long years, brothers, comrades, friends!

  

   Hop. 1st.  1915

  
  

  
  

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• June 15, 2017 17:36:24 L G

  To Belgium! 

  Brave Belgium! T'was thee stood in the stream, damming the flood 
  

  That otherwise had swept o'er France and England 
  

  For us thy soldiers died; for us

  Thy women wept; for us thy children desolate

  Torn from their homes and  ...   adrift

  For us the martyrdom of innocents, the bodies bruised, the  ...   disraught 

  For us today in  ... ruin the thriving land

  That once was Belgium. happy and prosperous.

  Rather than England should forget her debt

  Let her seas recede. Her orchard  fruitless , her fields be barren,

   Her  cities shatterred  like  Louvain  or  as  Ypres laid level with the  stones .

  But England never can forget. T'is written

  On her annals for all time

  That harassed, vexed,  ...  in tears

  For the  ... later from  here 

  
  

  
  

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• January 25, 2017 19:33:48 Debbie Cameron

  To Belgium!
  

  Brave Belgium! T'was thee stood in the stream, damming the flood

   

  That otherwise had swept o'er France and England

   

  For us thy soldiers died; for us

   

  Thy women wept: for us thy children desolate

   

  Torn from their missing and missing adrift

  
  

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• January 25, 2017 18:56:42 Debbie Cameron

  To Belgium!
  

  
  

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