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God gave His children memory
That in life's garden there might be
June roses in December.

— Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

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Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears
Waste of youth's most precious years,
Waste of ways the saints have trod,
Waste of Glory, waste of God,
War!

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