Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE


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CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage
Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War


SERENE in beauty's olden lineage,
Calm as the star that hears the Angelus toll,
Louvain — the scholar's crypt, the artist's goal,
The cloistral shrine of hallowed pilgrimage
Rapt in the dreams of many an ardent age,
Louvain, the guileless city of man's soul,
Is blotted from the world — a bloodied scroll,
Ravaged to sate a drunken Teuton's rage.

His lust shall have its laurel. That red sword
He ravished with, Time's angel shall again
Grasp to sere him, and deify him Lord
Of Infamy; yea, brand him with its stain
Naked in night, abhorrent and abhorr'd,
Where the dead hail him William of Louvain!





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