CULPRITS
("During the first two and a half years of the war our loyal women gave 3,000,000 unfathered children to the state," said the kaiser.)
WHO is to blame for this dread war?
The German wife, the German maid
Who with servility obeyed
That word of out-lawed purity
And humbly lent
Themselves to "conscript motherhood"
To please an autocratic lord—
The German wife, the German maid
Who with servility obeyed
That word of out-lawed purity
And humbly lent
Themselves to "conscript motherhood"
To please an autocratic lord—
Those coward women who forgot
In bestial license God's decree
For marriage vows and chastity,
The finer, cleaner things of life—
And by their acts
Were concubines to stranger men
And lost the whiteness of their souls.
In bestial license God's decree
For marriage vows and chastity,
The finer, cleaner things of life—
And by their acts
Were concubines to stranger men
And lost the whiteness of their souls.
These bear the burden of the blame,
And on their shameless heads is heaped
The world's contempt; they trebly reaped
In scorn of world-wide womanhood
What they had sown;
For through the ages it will stand
A nation's scarlet harlotry!
And on their shameless heads is heaped
The world's contempt; they trebly reaped
In scorn of world-wide womanhood
What they had sown;
For through the ages it will stand
A nation's scarlet harlotry!
And men who know their women went
Down to such depths of infamy,
Down to such depths of infamy,
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