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ARMAGEDDON
SONNET
The dreadful close is reached not. Flame to flame
May leap, till Europe reddens into fire.
Ye who to-day towards slothful calm aspire
Yours is the error, yours will be the blame
If retribution on the track of shame
Follows, if agony's storm-sob rises higher
Till the winds hearken, and the waves inquire
Whence the long moan of human anguish came.
May leap, till Europe reddens into fire.
Ye who to-day towards slothful calm aspire
Yours is the error, yours will be the blame
If retribution on the track of shame
Follows, if agony's storm-sob rises higher
Till the winds hearken, and the waves inquire
Whence the long moan of human anguish came.
From land to land the torch of war may spring
And all the armies of the world may clash
Together, and in one vast lightning-flash
Man may behold an Armageddon bring,
While suns on stars in hideous turmoil crash,
The end of love, of life,—of everything.
And all the armies of the world may clash
Together, and in one vast lightning-flash
Man may behold an Armageddon bring,
While suns on stars in hideous turmoil crash,
The end of love, of life,—of everything.
1903.
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