LIONEL HAWEIS
A talented English poet who was for some time a planter in Ceylon. Migrated to Vancouver in 1908 and is now on the library staff The University of British Columbia. Born 1870. Educated at Malborough College and King William's College. Eldest son of the late Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.A. mother was a daughter of the artist, Thomas Musgrove Joy. Both parents were authors. Has a volume of lyrics and several dramas ready for publication, in which is felt the influence of the colour and passion of the East.
BELGIUM
BELGIUM!. . . . thou whose one
And only arrogance it was to urge
The sanctity of tokens, and invoke
Inviolable performance of the word,
Standing impawned to battle in the dark
For incontestable truth.
Bar-lass of France's honour as thine own!
Bar-lass of all the Lilies of the World!
Thine is the portion that redeems as thine
The crying in the night that shook our hearts:
The crying in the night shook our hearts:
'Slay thou me first—then pass!' . . .
All for a watching world's crossed honour, lest
It perish utterly, lacking thy stroke
Of daring, which went down in bloody surge.
Thou, for one righteous and remedial end hast shed
Such chrism of oblative tears and blood as, in the sum
Of things accounted godly needs must purge
The world's arbitrament of arms—arms—arms—
'Arms and the Man'—his brute appeal to arms
In the long parliament of years to come!
II
Turn, then, thy death-crossed eyes
Toward that quivering star's symbolic fires
