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A Symbol of Belgium
Barnouw, A. J. | January 11, 1917 issue

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Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's tragic death is symbolic of his country's agony. While the German trains were carrying tens of thousands of Belgian workers into slavery, sapping the nation of its last fund of strength, another train, somewhere in France, crushed under its wheels the life and the song of its greatest poet, who, stood for the unity of the Belgian nation. "Les Ailes Rouges de la Guerre" is the title of his latest book of poetry, poems inspired by the war and the passions it had stirred in this fiery soul, and it seems as if, by his sudden death, his people had lost its voice to cry out to the world the unutterable woe of serfdom. He was, all his life, the voice of the oppressed.

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VERHAEREN, Emile; DEATH; POETS; POETRY; SERFDOM; BELGIUM
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