English poem
Serbia
by Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)
WHEN the heroic deeds that mark our time Shall, in far days to come, recorded be, Men, much forgetting, shall remember thee, Thou central martyr of the Monster-Crime,
Who kept thy soul clear of the ooze and slime— The quicksands of deceit and perjury— A living thing, unconquered still and free, Through superhuman sacrifice sublime.