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War! war! war!
Heaven aid the right!
God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War (1864)

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The crystal-pointed tents from hill to hill.

Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War (1864)

O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul
As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole.
Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs
Hearts of patience to unravel this, — the worth of common deeds.

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Give me to die unwitting of the day,
And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!

Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,
Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.

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