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164 SONGS OF WAR AND PEACE |
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And peace—lie Blue and Gray; The saddened sun sinks red adown
The western sky, and, lo! The lightnings flash, to Love that lost,
Another crash of woe. |
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WAR.
By blazing homes, through forests torn,
And blackened harvest-fields, The grim and drunken god of war
In frenzied fury reels.
His breath—the sulph'rous stench of guns—
That death and famine deals, And Pity, pleading, wounded, falls
Beneath his steel-shod heels. |
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THE ANGLO-SAXON WAY.
High flies the flag of freedom, by Columbia unfurled,
And gracefully 'tis draping in the breezes of the world;
Bright shines the gleaming galaxy of interlinking stars, |
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