Written in Washington, D.C.
February, 1915.




To Jane Addams at the Hague

Two Poems, written on the Sinking of the Lusitania.
Appearing in the Chicago `Herald', May 11, 1915.



I. Speak Now for Peace


Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen,
Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart),
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen.

Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone,
Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood,
It is heard to-night by every senate and throne.

Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men
Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth,
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.