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THE AMERICAN SENATE'S AMENDMENT
More right divine, perchance, ye arrogate
Than Kings anointed; yet ye little prove
Your title to investiture of Love,
Which is Divinity; but consecrate
To enmity ye seem! For when, as late,
Peace left awhile her heavenly Ark, that hove
A little nearer Earth, the gentle dove
Could find no harbour in your flood of hate.
Than Kings anointed; yet ye little prove
Your title to investiture of Love,
Which is Divinity; but consecrate
To enmity ye seem! For when, as late,
Peace left awhile her heavenly Ark, that hove
A little nearer Earth, the gentle dove
Could find no harbour in your flood of hate.
Hither and thither dark confusions smite,
In maddened chivalry of pride and pelf;
The nations of the world, like factions fight,
As reasonless as Ghibelline and Guelph:
Yet Earth has never seen a viler sight
Than this vile war ye wage on Peace herself!
In maddened chivalry of pride and pelf;
The nations of the world, like factions fight,
As reasonless as Ghibelline and Guelph:
Yet Earth has never seen a viler sight
Than this vile war ye wage on Peace herself!
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