Carnage! <br />Humanity disgraced! <br />Time's dearest toil effaced! <br />Poison gases and flame <br />Putting Nero to shame! <br />Bayonet, bomb and shell! <br />Merry reading for hell! <br />The wickedness! the waste! <br />Courage! <br />To gain their fiery goal, <br />Some crumbling, blood-soaked knoll, <br />How fearlessly they fling <br />Their flesh to suffering, <br />Offer their ardent breath <br />To gasping, shuddering death! <br />O miracle of soul!<br /><br />Katharine Lee Bates<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-morning-paper/
