From The Sun, August 7, 1914. By McLandburgh Wilson.
Germans and Austrians turn on the world,
Sounding their battle alarms;
English, French, Russians and Serbs are all hurled
Crushing the others in arms.
Still is a greater alliance that sweeps
Leading forever the van;
One that includes every woman who weeps,
One that includes every man.
Soldiers shall rot in the land of the foe;
Widows shall sorrow forlorn;
Babes shall come into a world full of woe
Orphaned before they are born.
This is the triple alliance that bears
Brunt of the carnage so wild;
Greatest, most ancient of all earth’s affairs,
Father and mother and child.
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