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Disarmament

John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)

One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease
 From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
We who are great in war be great in peace.
 No longer let us plead the cause by might."

But from a million British graves took birth
 A silent voice -- the million spake as one --
"If ye have righted all the wrongs of earth
 Lay by the sword!  Its work and ours is done."

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 366
Words 76
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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John McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. more…

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