It cannot be that having seen the day
We should endure the tyranny of the night ;
For if we have not sinned against the light,
Nor made an idol of the sword, as they,
The powers of darkness set in proud array
Shall not o’ermaster us ; the sword shall smite
The abusers of the sword, and all their might
Shall wither, and their glory pass away.
No more shall lawless force be throned as God,
The troubled nations of the earth no more
Shall humbly wait upon a despot’s nod.
And when the sacred cause for which they bled
Is surely stablished, we will turn and pour
Libation to the uncomplaining dead.
(Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper)
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