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Veils, everywhere float veils; veils long and black, / Framing white faces, oft-times young and fair, / But, like a rose touched by untimely frost, / Showing the blighting marks of sorrow's track.
Veils, veils, veils everywhere. They tell the cost / Of man-made war. They show the awful toll / Paid by the hearts of women for the crimes, / The age-old crimes by selfishness ill-named / ‘Justice' and ‘Honour' and ‘The call of Fate'- / High words men use to hide their low estate. / About the joy and beauty of this world / A long black veil is furled.