This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: — <br />To speak of bloody power as right divine, <br />And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, <br />And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine:— <br /> <br />To go forth killing in White Mercy's name, <br />Making the trenches stink with spattered brains, <br />Tearing the nerves and arteries apart, <br />Sowing with flesh the unreaped golden plains. <br /> <br />In any Church's name, to sack fair towns, <br />And turn each home into a screaming sty, <br />To make the little children fugitive, <br />And have their mothers for a quick death cry,— <br /> <br />This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: <br />This is the sin no purging can atone:— <br />To send forth rapine in the name of Christ:— <br />To set the face, and make the heart a stone.<br /><br />Vachel Lindsay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-unpardonable-sin/
