<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510818" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Macdonough's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether the State can loose and bind<br>In Heaven as well as on Earth:<br>If it be wiser to kill mankind<br>Before or after the birth--<br>These are matters of high concern<br>Where State-kept schoolmen are;<br>But Holy State (we have lived to learn)<br>Endeth in Holy War.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether The People be led by The Lord,<br>Or lured by the loudest throat:<br>If it be quicker to die by the sword<br>Or cheaper to die by vote--<br>These are things we have dealt with once,<br>(And they will not rise from their grave)<br>For Holy People, however it runs,<br>Endeth in wholly Slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whatsoever, for any cause,<br>Seeketh to take or give<br>Power above or beyond the Laws,<br>Suffer it not to live!<br>Holy State or Holy King--<br>Or Holy People's Will--<br>Have no truck with the senseless thing.<br>Order the guns and kill!<br> Saying --after--me:--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once there was The People--Terror gave it birth;<br>Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth.<br>Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain!<br>Once there was The People--it shall never be again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510818" data-title="Macdonough's Song de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well as on Earth: If it be wiser to kill mankind Before or after the birth-- These are matters of high concern Where State-kept schoolmen are; But Holy State (we have lived to learn) Endeth in Holy..."></div> </div> </div>

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