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Have pity, Christ, on Thy poor folk,For now the fields are desolateAnd misery and famine waitOn all, the chimneys give no smoke—Our men have marched away from us.Soon will the village bells have goneFrom their dark places up on high,And we who watch will never tieGay blossoms round them, and uponTheir path no laughter will resound.Beloved bells, when thunder rolledAnd lightning threatened us you swayed,Our music-censers, and you prayedThat God Almighty would beholdThe danger and be merciful.O bells that sang of love and joy,A foul destruction you will spread.Once you moaned sweetly for the deadAnd now 'tis you that will destroy,And on their course the bullets moan.But once again, O bells, we pray,Let the tremendous music roll.Sing us the secrets of your soul,And then your last song of dismayAnd wrath and sacrilegious death.

Have pity, Christ, on Thy poor folk,For now the fields are desolateAnd misery and famine waitOn all, the chimneys give no smoke—Our men have marched away from us.

Soon will the village bells have goneFrom their dark places up on high,And we who watch will never tieGay blossoms round them, and uponTheir path no laughter will resound.

Beloved bells, when thunder rolledAnd lightning threatened us you swayed,Our music-censers, and you prayedThat God Almighty would beholdThe danger and be merciful.

O bells that sang of love and joy,A foul destruction you will spread.Once you moaned sweetly for the deadAnd now 'tis you that will destroy,And on their course the bullets moan.

But once again, O bells, we pray,Let the tremendous music roll.Sing us the secrets of your soul,And then your last song of dismayAnd wrath and sacrilegious death.

FOOTNOTES:[80]Cf. "Le Progrès politique et économique sous le Régne de Pierrei.," by A. Mousset, inYugoslavia, December 15, 1921.[81]In all, 7130 boys and girls were removed from Bosnia-Herzegovina. And a year or two after the end of the war a good many of them were still with their foster-parents in other parts of Yugoslavia. They preferred to remain there, because of the lack of food in their own homes; the parents of many—especially in Herzegovina—had been hanged, and others had been for so long away from their parents that they had no keen desire to return to them.[82]Quoted in theTimesof September 24, 1919.[83]Cf.Serbia's Part in the War, vol. i., by Crawfurd Price. London, 1918.[84]He intervened, for example, near Lazarevac, where he observed, with tears in his eyes, that one of the finest regiments, the 10th Šumadija, was giving way to overwhelming numbers. He told them that he intended to stay where he was, and he invited any soldier who wished to remain with him to do so. Every man remained. "Très charmant," was the comment of the colonel, an eye-witness, who told me of this incident.[85]Cf.Manchester Guardian, October 22, 1921.[86]Cf.Nineteenth Century and After, January 1922.[87]Cf.Dokumenti o postanku Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, 1914-1919, by Ferdo Šišić. Zagreb, 1920.[88]Cf.International Law, Part I. p. 321.[89]Italy and the Yugoslavs: A Question of International Law.Paris, 1919.[90]July 17, 1920.[91]I think that, in so far as concerns this article in theNew Europe(July 8, 1920), it is fairer to describe Mr. Trevelyan as an Italian exponent rather than apologist. Although we cannot agree with various remarks of his, he makes it clear that he is out of sympathy with the Italian extremists. He deprecates also the views of those English publicists who are altogether on the side of the Yugoslavs. "The truth, perhaps," says he, "lies somewhere hid in the centre." And if that is not a very happy observation, it is at any rate much more moderate than the average views of those English writers whose spiritual home is in Italy.[92]Byron,Childe Harold.[93]About 36,000 boys—partly recruits and partly boys of more tender years—started over the mountains, and some 20,000 of them perished.[94]This officer, aided by others, was charged with having organized an attempt to overthrow the Yugoslav National Council soon after its constitution in the autumn of 1918. The day of the counter-revolution was to be November 25, according to theHrvatskaRiječof November 23. The General and others were arrested, but as he was able to prove his innocence he was liberated.[95]With Serbia into Exile.New York, 1916.[96]Cf.The Question, by Isidora Sekulić.[97]Revue des Deux Mondes, January 1, 1917.[98]In contrast with this attitude that was adopted at Nikita's command one must mention the transactions of a Podgorica merchant, M. Burič, and his partners, who sold 150,000 kilos of grain to the retreating army at cost price, that is, at one dinar per kilo when they could have obtained five. Two million kilos of hay they sold at 8 paras per kilo instead of at 50 or more. There were at this time only 20 tons of flour in all Montenegro. Undoubtedly the refusal of Burič and his friends to profit from the distress of their brother Serbs was much more typical of the Montenegrins than the conduct which Nikita drew forth from the weak side of their character.[99]Cf. an article in theGazette de Lausanne, November 29, 1917, by Danilo Gatalo, a former Montenegrin Minister of War.[100]Cf. p. 204.[101]Ex-King Nicholas and his Court(Collection of eighteen original documents in facsimile). Sarajevo, 1919.[102]These almost incredible facts are vouched for by Dr. Sekula Drljević, ex-Minister of Justice and Finance, who was one of the internees at Karlstein.[103]The Black Sheep of the Balkans.London, 1920.[104]In 1919 this very popular physician became Minister of Public Health in a Coalition Cabinet, and in 1920 he became Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.[105]A couple of months before the triumph of the Yugoslav idea one of these priests, Dr. Alexius Ušeničnik, Professor of Theology, published at Ljubljana a little book packed with ancient and modern quotations from Latin and French, Italian and German sources. He called itUm die Yugoslavija; Eine Apologie; and in the strongest terms he combated the reproach that the Slovene bishop, the clergy and the people were not loyal to the Habsburgs. Dr. Ušeničnik proved that the poor Slovenes were suffering an almost intolerable subjection at the hands of the Germans, but he persisted in demanding nothing more than freedom within the Habsburg Monarchy. "The Monarchy," said our unhappy author, "is in the midst of its development." And this priest, who was so deaf to the grand Yugoslav idea, quoted with approval the words of Gustave le Bon: "Ideas take a long time in possessing the people's soul."

[80]Cf. "Le Progrès politique et économique sous le Régne de Pierrei.," by A. Mousset, inYugoslavia, December 15, 1921.

[81]In all, 7130 boys and girls were removed from Bosnia-Herzegovina. And a year or two after the end of the war a good many of them were still with their foster-parents in other parts of Yugoslavia. They preferred to remain there, because of the lack of food in their own homes; the parents of many—especially in Herzegovina—had been hanged, and others had been for so long away from their parents that they had no keen desire to return to them.

[82]Quoted in theTimesof September 24, 1919.

[83]Cf.Serbia's Part in the War, vol. i., by Crawfurd Price. London, 1918.

[84]He intervened, for example, near Lazarevac, where he observed, with tears in his eyes, that one of the finest regiments, the 10th Šumadija, was giving way to overwhelming numbers. He told them that he intended to stay where he was, and he invited any soldier who wished to remain with him to do so. Every man remained. "Très charmant," was the comment of the colonel, an eye-witness, who told me of this incident.

[85]Cf.Manchester Guardian, October 22, 1921.

[86]Cf.Nineteenth Century and After, January 1922.

[87]Cf.Dokumenti o postanku Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, 1914-1919, by Ferdo Šišić. Zagreb, 1920.

[88]Cf.International Law, Part I. p. 321.

[89]Italy and the Yugoslavs: A Question of International Law.Paris, 1919.

[90]July 17, 1920.

[91]I think that, in so far as concerns this article in theNew Europe(July 8, 1920), it is fairer to describe Mr. Trevelyan as an Italian exponent rather than apologist. Although we cannot agree with various remarks of his, he makes it clear that he is out of sympathy with the Italian extremists. He deprecates also the views of those English publicists who are altogether on the side of the Yugoslavs. "The truth, perhaps," says he, "lies somewhere hid in the centre." And if that is not a very happy observation, it is at any rate much more moderate than the average views of those English writers whose spiritual home is in Italy.

[92]Byron,Childe Harold.

[93]About 36,000 boys—partly recruits and partly boys of more tender years—started over the mountains, and some 20,000 of them perished.

[94]This officer, aided by others, was charged with having organized an attempt to overthrow the Yugoslav National Council soon after its constitution in the autumn of 1918. The day of the counter-revolution was to be November 25, according to theHrvatskaRiječof November 23. The General and others were arrested, but as he was able to prove his innocence he was liberated.

[95]With Serbia into Exile.New York, 1916.

[96]Cf.The Question, by Isidora Sekulić.

[97]Revue des Deux Mondes, January 1, 1917.

[98]In contrast with this attitude that was adopted at Nikita's command one must mention the transactions of a Podgorica merchant, M. Burič, and his partners, who sold 150,000 kilos of grain to the retreating army at cost price, that is, at one dinar per kilo when they could have obtained five. Two million kilos of hay they sold at 8 paras per kilo instead of at 50 or more. There were at this time only 20 tons of flour in all Montenegro. Undoubtedly the refusal of Burič and his friends to profit from the distress of their brother Serbs was much more typical of the Montenegrins than the conduct which Nikita drew forth from the weak side of their character.

[99]Cf. an article in theGazette de Lausanne, November 29, 1917, by Danilo Gatalo, a former Montenegrin Minister of War.

[100]Cf. p. 204.

[101]Ex-King Nicholas and his Court(Collection of eighteen original documents in facsimile). Sarajevo, 1919.

[102]These almost incredible facts are vouched for by Dr. Sekula Drljević, ex-Minister of Justice and Finance, who was one of the internees at Karlstein.

[103]The Black Sheep of the Balkans.London, 1920.

[104]In 1919 this very popular physician became Minister of Public Health in a Coalition Cabinet, and in 1920 he became Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.

[105]A couple of months before the triumph of the Yugoslav idea one of these priests, Dr. Alexius Ušeničnik, Professor of Theology, published at Ljubljana a little book packed with ancient and modern quotations from Latin and French, Italian and German sources. He called itUm die Yugoslavija; Eine Apologie; and in the strongest terms he combated the reproach that the Slovene bishop, the clergy and the people were not loyal to the Habsburgs. Dr. Ušeničnik proved that the poor Slovenes were suffering an almost intolerable subjection at the hands of the Germans, but he persisted in demanding nothing more than freedom within the Habsburg Monarchy. "The Monarchy," said our unhappy author, "is in the midst of its development." And this priest, who was so deaf to the grand Yugoslav idea, quoted with approval the words of Gustave le Bon: "Ideas take a long time in possessing the people's soul."

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