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A Holiday

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Berlin, Germany, gave the school children a half holiday to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania.     War declares a holiday;     Little children, run and play.     Ring-a-rosy round the earth     With the garland of your mirth.     Shrill a song brim full of glee     Of a great ship sunk at sea.     Tell with pleasure and with pride     How a hundred children died.     Sing of orphan babes, whose cries     Beat against unanswering skies;     Let a mother's mad despair     Lend staccato to your air.     Sing of babes who drowned alone;     Sing of headstones, marked 'Unknown';     Sing of homes made desolate     Where the stricken mourners wait.     Sing of battered corpses tossed     By the heedless waves, and lost.     Run, sweet children, sing and play;     War declares a holiday.

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