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War is a wicked thing, It strews the earth with dead, And leaves the trampled battle-field With blood and carnage red, While thousand mangled forms In hopeless suffering bleed, And vultures and hyenas throng Upon their flesh to feed.

See with what bitter grief Those widowed ones deplore ; And children for their father mourn, Who must return no more. And aged parents sink In penury and despair, And sorrow dwells in many a home,— War makes the weeping there.