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"This war is a terrible thing," he said, / "With its countless numbers of needless dead; / A futile warfare it seems to me, / Fought for no principle I can see.
Alas, that thousands of hearts should bleed / For naught but a tyrant's boundless greed!"
Said the wholesale grocer, in righteous mood, / As he went to adulterate salable food.
Spake as follows the merchant king: / "Isn't this war a disgraceful thing?
Heartless, cruel, and useless, too; / It doesn't seem that it _can_ be true.
Think of the misery, want, and fear!
We ought to be grateful we've no war here.
"Six a week" -- to a girl -- "That's flat!
I can get a thousand to work for that. "