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The Conservative
Edited by H.P. Lovecraft
The Mocking Bird
When Southern moonlight softly falls,
When Day has died and stars unfold,
From Jasmine-scented groves--Oh, Love!
A Mocking-bird with Lyre of Gold!
All of your tears, all of your sighs;
All of Life's joys that thrill you through;
God's benediction and His love--
Are speaking in those notes to you.
All that you long'd and meant to be;
Your pray'rs, your dreams--(Oh, earthly bars!)
Are mounting, mounting, with that voice.
Straight up God's stairway to the stars!
Olive G. Owen.
Old England and the "Hyphen"
By H.P. Lovecraft
Of the various intentional fallacies exhaled like miasmic vapours from the rotting cosmopolitanism of vitiated American politics, and doubly rife during these days of European conflict, none is more disgusting than that contemptible subterfuge of certain foreign elements whereby the legitimate zeal of the genuine native stock for England's cause is denounced and compared to the unpatriotic disaffection of those working in behalf of England's enemies. The Prussian propagandists and Irish irresponsibles, failing in their clumsy efforts to use the United States as a tool of vengeance upon the Mistress of the Seas, have seized with ingenious and unexpected eagerness on a current slogan coined to counteract their own traitorous machinations, and have begun to fling the trite demand "America first" in the face of every American who is unable to share their puerile hatred of the British Empire. In demanding that American citizens impartially withhold love and allegiance from any government save their own, thereby binding themselves to a policy of rigid coldness in considering the fortunes of their Mother Country, the Prusso-Hibernian herd have the sole apparent advantage of outward technical justification. If the United States were truly the radical, aloof, mongrelised nation into which they idealise it, their plea might possibly be more appropriate. But in comparing the lingering loyalty of a German-American for Germany, or of an Irish-American for Ireland, with that of
