<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Criminal War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am shocked beyond words!<br>(Said the statesman. 'Tis crime<br>That the clamoring herds<br>Should seek war at this time.<br>For a criminal war is sheer folly<br>Subversive to ideals sublime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are wars that are nice;<br>There are wars that are not.<br>And 'tis seeking with vice<br>That the nations should plot<br>World war when my land is unready.<br>I refuse to consider such rot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My philosophy's clear;<br>My morality, too;<br>Tho' my rivals may sneer<br>At the things that I do.<br>If at present, for me, war's illegal It must be illegal for you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are human, I trust;<br>And to decency wed.<br>Let's have war, if we must;<br>But at present I dread<br>What crimes may come out of the carnage,<br>If blood be illegally shed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the past, all along<br>We have cleaved to our creed:<br>We shall fight when we're strong<br>When we're not we still plead<br>Our revulsion to acts homicidal<br>Induced by man's envy and greed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keep the sword in its sheath;<br>Seek sweet peace for a time,<br>Till, all armed to the teeth,<br>Our meek voices may climb<br>To sue for the blessings of Heaven<br>On butchery, purged of all crime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357841" data-title="The Criminal War de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I am shocked beyond words! (Said the statesman. 'Tis crime That the clamoring herds Should seek war at this time. For a criminal war is sheer folly Subversive to ideals sublime. There are wars that are nice; There are wars that are not. And 'tis ..."></div> </div> </div>

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