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Show REGENERATION Uoforo I wont to war I lived my llfo In luxury and softness, seeing naught . . Of tho' dospalr and sad. unccnslng strlfo Of thousands with whose lives my uaso was bought Iicforo I wont, to war 1 took no thought But bodiless, carolob.i, dollied on with sin; Saw nbt tho price at which a soul Is bought, Nor know tho souls men buy as mlno own kin. I went to war tore out my dying roots From the stagnant soil nnd llosb was boddod In. I'd thought to find my comrados uncouth brutes Instead, found men, and learned that sin Is sin! And Liberty I I learned to know thy cnll Is God's .pwn call to help tho world In pnln. So, Cod, 1 pray theo not to pardon all Hut do not lot mo closo my oyes again! Lieutenant John II, Minns. |