The Too-Late Born (Cavatina) (In Answer To Archibald Macleish)

We were too late born to escape from war,
was forced to go,
have caused with great manmade bolts of thunder
the slain; do know
the soulless agony that comes from killing,
saw phosphor glow
as it burns red with a projectile strike;
the destruction, killing, we did not like.

[Reference: 'The Too-Late Born' by Archibald MacLeish.]