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Wars And Rumours, 1920

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Blood, hatred, appetite and apathy,         The sodden many and the struggling strong,         Who care not now though for another wrong         Another myriad innocents should die.         At candid savagery or oily lie         We laugh, or, turning, join the noisy throng         Which buries the dead with gluttony and song.         Suppose this very evening from on high         Broke on the world that unexampled flame         The choir-thronged sky, and Thou, descending, Lord;         What agony of horror, fear, and shame,         For those who knew and wearied of Thy word,         I dare not even think, who am confest         Idle, malignant, lustful as the rest.

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