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How shall a generation know its story	A
If it will know no other When among	B
The scoffers at the Institute Pasteur	C
Heard one deny the cause of child birth fever	D
Indignantly he drew upon the blackboard	E
For all to see the Streptococcus chain	F
His mind was like Odysseus and Plato	G
Exploring a new cosmos in the old	H
As if he wrote a poem his enemy	A
Suffering disease and death the battleground	I
His introspection Science and peace he said	J
Will win out over ignorance and war	K
But then the virus mutant in his vein	F
Death to the Prussian and revenge revenge	L
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How shall my generation tell its story	A
Their fathers jobless boys for the CCC	B
And NYA the future like a stairwell	M
To floors without a window or a door	K
And then the army bayonet drill and foxhole	N
Bombing to rubble cities with textbook names	O
Later to bulldoze streets for their green bodies	P
Drowned in the greener surfs of rumored France	Q
My childhood friend George Humphreys whom I still see	A
Still ten years old his uncombed hair and grin	R
Moment by moment in the H uuml rtgen dark	B
Until the one step full in the sniper's sight	S
His pastor father emptied by the grief	T
Clark Harrison at nineteen a survivor	D
Never to walk or have a child or be	A
A senator or governor Herr Wegner	D
Who led his little troop their standards high	U
And sabers drawn against a panzer corps	K
Emerging from among the shades at Dachau	V
Stacked like firewood for someone else to burn	W
And Gerd Radomski listening to broadcasts	X
Of names a yearlong babel of the missing	B
To find his wife and children Then they came home	Y
Near middle age at twenty two to find	Z
A new reunion of the church and state	A2
Cynical Constantines who need no name	B2
Domestic tranquility beaten to a sword	E
Sons wasted by another lie in Asia	C2
Or Strangeloves they had feared that August day	D2
And they like runners stung behind a flag	B
Running within a circle bereft of joy	E2
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Hearing of the disaster at Sedan	F2
And the retreat worse than the one from Moscow	B
Their son among the missing or the dead	J
Pasteur and his wife Mary hired a carriage	G2
And traveling to the east where he might try	U
His way to Paris stopping to ask each youth	H2
And comfort every orphan of the state's	I2
Irascibility found him at last	J2
And unsurprised embraced and took him in	R
Two wars later the Prussian once again	K2
The son of Mars in Paris Joseph Meister	D
The first boy cured of rabies now the keeper	D
Of Pasteur's mausoleum when commanded	L2
To open it for them though over seventy	A
Lest he betray the master took his life	M2
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I like to think of Pasteur in Elysium	N2
Beneath the sunny pine of ripe Provence	O2
Tenderly raising black sheep butterflies	P2
Silkworms and a new culture for delight	S
Teaching his daughter to use a microscope	Q2
And musing through a wonder sacred passion	R2
Practice and metaphysic all the same	B2
And each year honor three births Val eacute ry	D
Humbling his pride by trying to write well	M
Mozart who lives still keeping my attention	R2
Repeatedly outside the reach of pride	S2
And him whose mark I witness as a trust	T2
Others he saves but could not save himself	U2
Socrates Galen Hippocrates the spirit	V2
Fastened by love upon the human cross	W2

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