A PROPHETIC WARNING.
[TO THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIE,—Pe-reading the poems of Mr. H. G. Hewlett (father of Mi. Maurice Hewlett), I have been much struck by the follow. ing sonnet to Germany, written in September, 1870—a prophetic warning which has indeed been justified, though not in the To GERMANY.
(From " A Wayfarer's Wallet.")
"0 scourge of God! if that dread name be thine,
Art thou not cozened by the cheat of sense That prompts the fated tool's blind confidence Itself doth wield its destiny? The Rhine, Unity, Fatherland, a fortressed line, Of these, thy righteous armour of defence, East thou wrought arms of fraud and violence.
Unity masks the intricate design Orono cool gamester's will, whose daring stake Rieke all for Empire. Fatherland doth make Ten thousand children fatherless. Where stood The Camaro, clomb the conquering kings o' the North And fell! Beware, lest some new scourge go forth,
And Rhine, thy Tiber, roll with German blood! "
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