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THE ANARCHONISM OF WAR by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: DEAD MEN, CRIPPLES, WOMENS' TEARS
Last Line: IF SUCH THINGS CAN BE ON EARTH?
Subject(s): WAR;
Dead men, cripples, women's tears,
Blight and waste of years on years,
Debt and want and hunger's pangs,
Cruelty's rapacious fangs,
Wounds and lingering disease,
These, and even worse than these --
Sages, statesmen, Christian hearts,
Where are all your boasted arts,
Where your reason, where your laws,
Where the love that binds and draws,
What is all your vaunting worth,
If such things can be on earth?



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