To Caesar
" What have you done with my legions, Caesar? "
A " disillusioned " nation waits reply:
Was it for nought, or for a tinselled lie
My dazzled youth were taught to kill and mar
God's fair green earth? Was it the lust of far
Renown, or English guile, or greed your lips deny
With honeyed cant and bland hypocrisy? —
Or, say, was it for peace that you made war?
What have you done with my legions, Caesar? . . Dead,
From Gaul to Muscovy, their spirits speak
Crying with David: " Victory is to God,
And vengeance! Keep you the pledge for which we bled, —
Go, feed the hungry and defend the weak! "
Your answer, Sire? ... Starvation and a fraud!
A " disillusioned " nation waits reply:
Was it for nought, or for a tinselled lie
My dazzled youth were taught to kill and mar
God's fair green earth? Was it the lust of far
Renown, or English guile, or greed your lips deny
With honeyed cant and bland hypocrisy? —
Or, say, was it for peace that you made war?
What have you done with my legions, Caesar? . . Dead,
From Gaul to Muscovy, their spirits speak
Crying with David: " Victory is to God,
And vengeance! Keep you the pledge for which we bled, —
Go, feed the hungry and defend the weak! "
Your answer, Sire? ... Starvation and a fraud!
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