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Said The Wounded One:

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Just see that we get full value     Of that for which we have paid.     The price has been a heavy one,     But the goods are there--and we've paid-.     We've paid in our toil and our woundings;     We've paid in the blood we've shed;     We've paid in our bitter hardships;     We've paid with our many dead.     It's not payment in kind we ask for,     Two wrongs don't make much of a right.     All we ask is--that, what we have paid for,     You secure for us, all right and tight.     The Peace of the World's what we're after;     We've all had enough of King Cain,     And the Kaiser and all his bully-men,     With their World-Power big on the brain.     No!--we fought with a definite object,     And it's this--and we want it made plain,--     That it's God, and not any devil,     That's to rule in the world again,

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