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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>And the Greatest of These Is War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head,<br>The Three Great Scourges of humanity sat.<br>Gaunt Famine, with hollow cheek and voice, arose and spoke,—<br>'O, Prince, I have stalked the earth,<br>And my victims by ten thousands I have slain,<br>I have smitten old and young.<br>Mouths of the helpless old moaning for bread, I have filled with dust;<br>And I have laughed to see a crying babe tug at the shriveling breast<br>Of its mother, dead and cold.<br>I have heard the cries and prayers of men go up to a tearless sky,<br>And fall back upon an earth of ashes;<br>But, heedless, I have gone on with my work.<br>'Tis thus, O, Prince, that I have scourged mankind.'<br>And Satan nodded his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pale Pestilence, with stenchful breath, then spoke and said, —<br>'Great Prince, my brother, Famine, attacks the poor. <br>Page 38 <br>He is most terrible against the helpless and the old.<br>But I have made a charnel-house of the mightiest cities of men.<br>When I strike, neither their stores of gold or of grain avail.<br>With a breath I lay low their strongest, and wither up their fairest.<br>I come upon them without warning, lancing invisible death.<br>From me they flee with eyes and mouths distended;<br>I poison the air for which they gasp, and I strike them down fleeing.<br>'Tis thus, great Prince, that I have scourged mankind.'<br>And Satan nodded his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the red monster, War, rose up and spoke,—<br>His blood-shot eyes glared 'round him, and his thundering voice<br>Echoed through the murky vaults of Hell. —<br>'O, mighty Prince, my brothers, Famine and Pestilence,<br>Have slain their thousands and ten thousands,— true;<br>But the greater their victories have been,<br>The more have they wakened in Man's breast <br>The God-like attributes of sympathy, of brotherhood and love<br>And made of him a searcher after wisdom.<br>But I arouse in Man the demon and the brute,<br>I plant black hatred in his heart and red revenge.<br>From the summit of fifty thousand years of upward climb<br>I haul him down to the level of the start, back to the wolf.<br>I give him claws.<br>I set his teeth into his brother's throat.<br>I make him drunk with his brother's blood.<br>And I laugh ho! ho! while he destroys himself.<br>O, mighty Prince, not only do I slay,<br>But I draw Man hellward.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, —<br>'O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.'<br>And Hell rang with the acclamation of the Fiends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Weldon+Johnson">James Weldon Johnson</a><div class=q>
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'O, Prince, I have stalked the earth,
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