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 ''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!. . . . 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!

Turn, then, thy death-crossed eyes Toward that quivering star's symbolic fires