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Show 1 Two Contributed Poems A PLEA FOR PEACE by L. M. Million How thoughtless people seem to be This Christmas is not anything to me With all this killing going on There is something very, very wrone:; I cannot hear those Christmas songs. I could not light my candle red When I see in it the blood that's shed, A-running down their wounded limbs; I could not think of singing hymns It's only mockery to me the tree and other Christmas things! When I think of all the wounded dying and dead I think of what the prophets said "Peace on earth, good will, we'll spread." But, oh, how far it seems to be This star of peace and unity. V "WARRIORS OF TOMORROW" if 1 By Edgar A. Guest (After seeing a photograph of J4,i babies in a ward of a hospital in one of the warring countries, over which the caption: "Warriors of Tomorrow," was inscribed. 1 "Warriors of Tomorrow!" No, i, That caption o"h the printed page Glosses the crime which shames our ao'e. ir"r Those babes which you so proudly A show In truth should not be labeled so. -f In this the cruel fact appears: ), "The cripples of the future fjy years!" iN Babes, born to such a bitter fate, !h For you should sterner lines be read Vl Like this: "Tomorrow's Unknown 'f& dead!" jjjft Why not come out and plainly to state: " "The Victims of Tomorrow's Hate" Hw, Caption them thus: "Tomorrow's Sa class 7j For cannon fire and poison gas." "Tomorrow's Crazed! Tomorrow's "H Blind!" J "Tomorrow's hopeless, broken I wrecks!" "Tomorrow's blood for fields and decks!" 'Here in this baby ward you'll find Tomorrow's shell shocked, shatter-d shatter-d ed mind!" (Jjj' "Tomorrow's Dead!" "Tomor- , row's Maimed!" y. That all mankind might be 4 ashamed, pj (Copyright, 1936, Edgar A. Guest) |