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We must live on; a deeper tragedy: / To see, to touch, to know, and to desire; / To feel in every vein the glorious fire / Of Eden, and to cry, "Oh, to be free!"
To cry, "Oh, wipe the gloomy stain away, / Thou who first raised the sword, Who gave the hilt / Into the hand of man. This blood they spilt -- / Our fathers -- oh, blot out the bitter day!
Erase the hour from out Thy calendar, / Turn back the hands upon the clock of Time, / Oh, Artificer of destroying War --
Their righteous hate who bore us in our crime!"
"Upon the children! " -- 'Tis the cold reply / Of Him who makes to those who must not die.