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I. You dare to say with perjured lips, / "We fight to make the ocean free"? / _You_, whose black trail of butchered ships / Bestrews the bed of every sea / Where German submarines have wrought / Their horrors! Have you never thought, -- / What you call freedom, men call piracy!
II. Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave, / Where you have murdered, cry you down; / And seamen whom you would not save, / Weave now in weed grown depths a crown / Of shame for your imperious head, -- / A dark memorial of the dead, -- / Women and children whom you sent to drown.