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With ever some wrong to be righting, / With self ever seeking for place, / The world has been striving and fighting / Since man was evolved out of space. / Bold history into dark regions / His torchlight has fearlessly cast, / He shows us tribes warring in legions, / In jungles of ages long passed.
Religion, forgetting her station, / Forgetting her birthright from God, / Set nation to warring with nation / And scattered dissension abroad. / Dear creeds have made men kill each other, / Fair faith has bred hate and despair, / And brother has battled with brother / Because of a difference in prayer.