The Song Of The Pacifist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III| What do they matter our headlong hates when we take the toll of our Dead | A |
| Think ye our glory and gain will pay for the torrent of blood we have shed | A |
| By the cheers of our Victory will the heart of the mother be comforted | B |
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| If by the Victory all we mean is a broken and brooding foe | C |
| Is the pomp and power of a glitt'ring hour and a truce for an age or so | C |
| By the clay cold hand on the broken blade we have smitten a bootless blow | C |
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| If by the Triumph we only prove that the sword we sheathe is bright | D |
| That justice and truth and love endure that freedom's throned on the height | D |
| That the feebler folks shall be unafraid that Might shall never be Right | D |
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| If this be all by the blood drenched plains by the havoc of fire and fear | E |
| By the rending roar of the War of Wars by the Dead so doubly dear | E |
| Then our Victory is a vast defeat and it mocks us as we cheer | E |
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| Victory there can be but one hallowed in every land | F |
| When by the graves of our common dead we who were foemen stand | F |
| And in the hush of our common grief hand is tendered to hand | F |
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| Triumph Yes when out of the dust in the splendour of their release | G |
| The spirits of those who fell go forth and they hallow our hearts to peace | G |
| And brothers in pain with world wide voice we clamour that War shall cease | G |
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| Glory Ay when from blackest loss shall be born most radiant gain | H |
| When over the gory fields shall rise a star that never shall wane | H |
| Then and then only our Dead shall know that they have not fall'n in vain | H |
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| When our children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be | I |
| When we thank our God for our grief to day and blazon from sea to sea | I |
| In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace that will be Victory | I |
Robert William Service
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