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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Two Armies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once over the ocean in distant lands,<br>In an age long past, were two hostile bands-<br>Two armies of men, both brave, both strong,<br>And their hearts beat high as they marched along<br>To fight the battle of right and wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Never, I think, did the Eye of heaven<br>Look down on two armies so nearly even<br>In well-trained soldiers, in strength and might.<br>But one was the <br>Wrong<br>, and one was the <br>Right<br>,<br>And the last was the stronger in heaven's sight.<br>And these hostile armies drew near, one night,<br>And pitched their tents on two hill-sides green,<br>With only the brow of a hill between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>With the first red beams of the morning light<br>Both knew would open the awful fight,<br>And one of the armies lay hushed and still,<br>And slept in the tents on the green side-hill.<br>Heart beat with heart: and they all were as one<br>In the thought of the battle to be begun<br>With the first bright glance of the morning sun.<br>Their aim was ignoble, their cause was wrong,<br>But they were <br>united<br>, and so they were strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Not so the army just over the hill:<br>While the ranks of the foe were hushed and still,<br>The ranks of the <br>Right<br>were torn with strife,<br>And with noise and confusion the air was rife.<br>Disputes and quarrels, dissensions and jars,<br>And the sound of fighting, and civil wars;<br>And, ere the morning, brother and brother,<br>Instead of the enemy, fought with each other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Over the hill, the foe, in glee,<br>Listened and laughed. 'Ho ho!' quoth he.<br>'There is strife in the enemy's ranks, I see,<br>And the bright red beams of the rising sun<br>Will see a victory easily won.<br>It matters little how strong the foe,<br>This is a truth we all do know:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no success without unity,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However noble the cause may be.<br>The day is ours before it's begun.<br>Ho! for the triumph so easily won.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And on the morrow, the ranks of the Right<br>Were routed and beaten, and put to flight,<br>And the Wrong was the victor, and gained the fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There are two armies abroad to-day,<br>As in the age that has passed away.<br>The makers, and venders, and patrons, and all<br>Who aid in the traffic of Alcohol,<br>These are the warriors, bold and strong,<br>Who swell the ranks of the army of Wrong.<br>And we are the soldiers, true and brave,<br>Who are striving with heart and hand to save<br>The youths of our land from the deep, dark grave<br>That the foe is digging by day and by night.<br>Only <br>one thing<br>can defeat the Right.<br>There is nothing but triumph for us, unless</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dissension<br>, that crafty foe to success,<br>Creeps into our ranks. Oh! let us <br>unite<br>!<br>Let heart beat with heart as we enter the fight;<br>Let the whole mighty army be <br>one<br>for the time,<br>And sweep on the foe in a column sublime<br>In its unity, earnestness, oneness, and might,<br>Till the foe stands aghast at the wonderful sight,<br>Till the enemy cowers and shivers, afraid<br>Of the awful approach of the grand cavalcade.<br>Close up the ranks, brothers! sisters, draw near,<br>We are fighting one fight, we are all kinsmen here.<br>Closer, still closer! in nearness lies might.<br>Love is our watchword-on to the fight!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q>
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In an age long past, were two hostile bands-
Two armies of men, both brave, both strong,
And their hearts beat high as they marched along
To fight the battle of right and wrong.


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