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 Man's hate passes as his love will pass.

God made woman what she always was.

Them that bear the burden they will never grant forgiveness

So long as they are here!

Once I was a woman, but that's by with me.

All I loved and looked for, it must die with me;

But the Lord has left me over for a servant of the Judgment,

And I serve His Judgments here!

Guns in Flanders—Flanders guns!

(I had a son that worked 'em once!)

Shells for guns in Flanders, Flanders!

Shells for guns in Flanders, Flanders!

''Shells for guns in Flanders! Feed the guns!''



1903

with knees that feign to quake—

Bent head and shaded brow,—

Yet once again, for my father's sake,

In Rimmon's House I bow.

The curtains part, the trumpet blares,

And the eunuchs howl aloud;

And the gilt, swag-bellied idol glares

Insolent over the crowd.

