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STARVING ARMENIA
Open your hearts, ye clothed from head to feet,
Ye housed and whole, who listen to the cry
Of them that not yet slain and mangled lie,
Only despoiled of all that made life sweet—
Only left bare to snow, and wind, and sleet,
And roofless to the inhospitable sky.
Give them of your abundance, lest they die,
And famine make this mighty woe complete;
And lest—if truly, as your creeds aver,
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To hear the voice of the uprisen dead:
“We were the naked whom ye covered not,
The sick to whom ye did not minister,
Yea, and the hungry whom ye gave not bread.”
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