Serbia

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Serbia by Florence Earle Coates Fugitive verse

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As rendered in A treasury of war poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917):

SERBIA When the heroic deeds that mark our time    Shall, in far days to come, recorded be,    Men, much forgetting, shall remember thee, Thou central martyr of the Monster-Crime, Who kept thy soul clear of the ooze and slime—    The quicksands of deceit and perjury—    A living thing, unconquered still and free, Through superhuman sacrifice sublime. O Serbia! amid thy ruins great, Love is immortal; there's an end to hate,    Always there will be dawn, though dark the night. Look up, thou tragic Glory! Even now, The thorny round that binds thy bleeding brow    Is as a crown irradiating light! Florence Earle Coates

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