Complaint To Europe Poem by Raphael Patkanian

'Have you forgotten, Europe, how the dart
Of the fierce Persian pointed at your heart,
Until, on that dread field of Avarair,
Armenian blood quenched his fanatic fire?
'Have you forgot the fell and crushing blow
Prepared for you by Islam long ago?
We would not see your desolation the,
Burning of cities, massacre of men.
'Two hundred years Armenia, bathed in blood.
Europe was safe, our living wall behind,
Until the enemy's huge strength declined.
'Have you forgotten, Europe, how of yore
your heroes in the desert hungered sore?
What then could strength or force of arms avail,
Had we not fed your hosts, with famine pale?'