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The Wonder-Working War - ZaunköniG - 30.07.2007
The Wonder-Working War
Men looked with horror on their darkened skies,
But Freedom called them and they laid aside
Life's greatest gifts, to take their guns with pride
And hasten to their camps with fearless eyes;
Then Labor saw its fitting hour to rise,
And Woman found her honors multiplied,
While millions flung the starry banner wide,
To find their flag the grandest of all ties.
For war had brought such magic with its might
That spite of carnage, loss and shrapnel scars
Men felt an inspiration and new light
To see the world's great changes under Mars,
As though God only dropped the veil of Night,
That men might see the glory of the stars.