So
to the second day when new policies are born,
While
that foreign policy of brutal aggression
Bares
the question ‘will might or right prevail?'
In
an unravelling of a European fight.
Irrevocably
comes the 'dread decision of the sword,'
'The
storm of war has broken.'
So
starts the first phase and catchphrases of war -
Still
this is more than a mere English war.
More
than headings of ‘England’s Declaration.’
Remember
Wales, remember Scotland, remember Ireland...
On
the back of uncertainty rides outrage -
Germany
villainy is made by sinking of a British mine-layer
And
chasing of a cruiser even before a declaration of war.
But
doubts of this are raised by other reports – so what is truth?
And
if so what was a British mine-layer up to?
The
'fog of war' has fallen over a placid brooding sea.
Still
the Kaiser claims a necessity to invade Luxembourg,
And
cut across Belgium's neutral territory.
In
calm irony, advertisers in newspapers make claim for,
‘The
shortest and most comfortable route to North Germany.’
This
makes one think that perhaps the territorial army
Should
book ahead for their tickets,
In
time for a quick remedy and a perhaps Berlin holiday.
by
Jamie Mann.
Anon., 2014. Daily
Telegraph August 5 1914. The Telegraph, [online] 5 Aug.
Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11004294/Daily-Telegraph-August-5-1914.html
[Accessed: 5th August 2014].
Mann, J., 2014. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 5 August
2014).
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