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I. / Thus only should it come, if come it must; / Not with a riot of flags or a mob-born cry, / But with a noble faith, a conscience high / And pure and proud as heaven, wherein we trust, / We who have fought for peace, have dared the thrust / Of calumny for peace, and watched her die, / Her scutcheons rent from sky to outraged sky / By felon hands, and trampled into the dust.
We fought for peace, and we have seen the law / Cancelled, not once, nor twice, by felon hands, / But shattered, again, again, and yet again. / We fought for peace. Now, in God's name, we draw / The sword, not with a riot of flags and bands, / But silence, and a mustering of men.