On all, the chimneys give no smoke--
Our men have marched away from us.

Soon will the village bells have gone
From their dark places up on high,
And we who watch will never tie
Gay blossoms round them, and upon
Their path no laughter will resound.

Beloved bells, when thunder rolled
And lightning threatened us you swayed,
Our music-censers, and you prayed
That God Almighty would behold
The danger and be merciful.

O bells that sang of love and joy,
A foul destruction you will spread.
Once you moaned sweetly for the dead
And 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 dismay
And wrath and sacrilegious death.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 80: Cf. "Le Progres politique et economique sous le
Regne de Pierre I.," by A. Mousset, in _Yugoslavia_, December
15, 1921.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 82: Quoted in the _Times_ of September 24, 1919.]

[Footnote 83: Cf. _Serbia's Part in the War_, vol. i., by
Crawfurd Price. London, 1918.]

[Footnote 84: He intervened, for example, near Lazarevac,
where he observed, with tears in his eyes, that one of the
finest regiments, the 10th [vS]umadija, 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. "Tres charmant," was
the comment of the colonel, an eye-witness, who told me of
this incident.]

[Footnote 85: Cf. _Manchester Guardian_, October 22, 1921.]

[Footnote 86: Cf. _Nineteenth Century and After_, January
1922.]

[Footnote 87: Cf. _Dokumenti o postanku Kraljevine Srba,
Hrvata i Slovenaca, 1914-1919_, by Ferdo [vS]i[vs]i['c].
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