The blood-guilt rests in the first place with the Kaiser and his Government, and in the second place (although in no less a degree) with the German people, because they condoned the crime and acquiesced in the duplicity.

Does my partnership in his guilt blot out his part of it?

" Mrs. Hamilton left the room, and quickly returned with a neat silver hunting-case watch, with a guilt chain.

They after death their fears of him express, His innocence and their own guilt confess.

[150] "There not a dreg of guilt defiles.

At fyrst, untutcht with horror of the fact, My purpose was to laye the guilt elswhear And for that purpose caus'd my man to mount him Over the cloyster wall.

When haughty guilt exults with impious joy, Mistake shall blast, or accident destroy; Weak man, with erring rage, may throw the dart, But heav'n shall guide it to the guilty heart.

And yet, if many equal guilt involve, Thou may'st not these condemn, and those absolve.

Twas I that winding my shrill bugle horn, Made a guilt pallace breake out of the hill, Filled suddenly with troopes of knights and dames Who daunst and reveld whilste we sweetly slept Upon a bed of Roses, wrapt all in goulde.

Oh! could thy hand, unaided, free thy country, Nor mingled guilt pollute the sacred cause!

Guilt startsits own shadow.

For my guilt thole I none.

Ye gaze upon that fair young brow, Where death's pale shade is resting now; Well, well may grief suffuse your eyes, Yet let no murm'ring thought arise, To stain with guilt affection's tear, Which falls upon the loved one's bier.

The guilt whereof will gnawe him in his brest, Torment him living, and when I am dead Curse thee by whose plot I was murdered?

They, however, after being there repulsed, where not even the ambassadors of enemies are prohibited admittance, come to you: they require restitution according to the treaty: let not guilt attach to the state, they demand to have delivered up to them the author of the transgression, the person who is chargeable with this offence.