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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SERBIA, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES
First Line: When the heroic deeds that mark our time
Last Line: Is as a crown irradiating light!
Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War
First Line: When the heroic deeds that mark our time
Last Line: Is as a crown irradiating light!
Subject(s): Serbia; World War I; Servia; First World War
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!
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