The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
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And this you learn from the libelled past,though its methods were somewhat rude --
A nation's born where the shells fall fast, or its lease of life renewed.
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For the world was a wide world to you.
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We in part atone for the ghoulish strife,
and the crimes of the peace we boast,
And the better part of a people's life in the storm comes uppermost.
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The roads are rare to travel, and life seems all complete;
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A smoke and a yarn on the deck by day,
When life is a waking dream,
And care and trouble so far away
That out of your life they seem.
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