“LUSITANIA,” 7TH MAY 1915.
REJOICE! Rejoice! the deed is done!
The Innocents are dead.
Hell’s deepest teachings are outdone!
Justice and Mercy fled.
Rejoice! for in a thousand homes
The English mothers weep
The thousand sons our secret arm
Has plunged beneath the deep.
Rejoice!–but what this bitter brand–
Pale spectre of the slain–
You press upon my shrinking brow?
“It is the mark of Cain.”
(Mary Booth)
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