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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 100
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THE RED STAR.
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ALEXANDER
He was softer than a dove ;
He was made for human love.
I have given him for food
To the lusty panic rood,
And the obscure brotherhood.
IST NYMPH
So the doves of men begotten
Shall be plucked, and bruised, and rotten.
2ND NYMPH
So shall full-fed brothel-knaves
Kick them to indecent graves
In the name of the sweet Dove
That is God — for God is Love.
ALEXANDER
See ye naught but cruelty
In the infinite To-Be ?
Look you, I have seen a star
Threatening pestilence or war
In the vault that hangs — a splash
Like a scar.
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