Volume 2 — Belgium.
Reading edition
By EDITH WHARTON.
[From King Albert's Book.]
La Belgique regrette rien.
Not with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the homestead from the tent.
Wherever men are stanch and free,
There shall she keep her fearless state,
And, homeless, to great nations be
The home of all that makes them great.