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ine-- Your country's sacrifice. Ye brides, whom future happiness, Once kissed--it but seemed true, Bring back to fair Germania What she has given you. Ye women, in silks or in linen, Offer your husbands now. Bid them goodbye, with your children, With smiles and a blessing vow. Ye all are doomed to lie sleepless, Many a desolate night, And dream of approaching conquests And of your hero's might. And dream of laurel and myrtle, Until he shall return, Till he, your master and shepherd, Shall make the old joys burn. And if he fell on the Autumn heath And fell deep into death, He died for Germania's greatness, He died for Germania's breath. The Fatherland they shall let stand, Upon his blood-soaked loam, And ne'er again shall they approach Our sacred, peaceful home. --Translated by Herman J. Mankiewicz. [Illustration: H.M. GUSTAF V King of Sweden _(Photo from Underwood & Underwood)_] [Illustration: H.M. HAAKON VII King of Norway _(Photo from Underwood & Underwood)_] The Peace of the World A Famous Englishman's Diagnosis of the War Disease and His Prescription for a Permanent Cure By H.G. Wells (COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY.) (Copyrighted in Great Britain and Ireland.) I. Probably there have never been before in the whole past of mankind so many people convinced of the dreadfulness of war, nor so large a proportion anxious to end war, to rearrange the world's affairs so that this huge hideousness of hardship, suffering, destruction, and killing that still continues in Europe may never again be repeated. The present writer is one of this great majority. He wants as far as possible to end war altogether, and contrive things so that when any unavoidable outbreak does occur it may be as little cruel and mischievous as it can be. But it is one thing to desire a thing and another thing to get it. It does not follow because this aspiration for world-peace is almost universal that it will be realized. There may be faults in ourselves, unsuspected influences within us and without, that may be working to defeat our superficial sentiments. There must be not only a desire for peace, but a will for peace, if peace is to be established forever. If out of a hundred men ninety-nine desire peace and trouble no further, the one man
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