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DIES IRAE - DIES PACIS by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY

First Line: ONLY THROUGH ME!'...THE CLEAR, HIGH CALL COMES PEALING
Last Line: "CHRIST BY HIS OWN WAS CRUCIFIED AGAIN?"
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

"Only through Me!" ... The clear, high call comes pealing,
Above the thunders of the battle-plain; --
"Only through Me can Life's red wounds find healing;
Only through Me shall Earth have peace again.

Only through Me! ... Love's Might, all might transcending,
Alone can draw the poison-fangs of Hate.
Yours the beginning! -- Mine a nobler ending, --
Peace upon Earth, and Man regenerate!

Only through Me can come the great awakening;
Wrong cannot right the wrongs that Wrong hath done;
Only through Me, all other gods forsaking,
Can ye attain the heights that must be won.

Only through Me shall Victory be sounded;
Only through Me can Right wield righteous sword;
Only through Me shall Peace be surely founded;
Only through Me..... @3Then bid Me to the Board!"@1

@3Can we not rise to such great height of glory?
Shall this vast sorrow spend itself in vain?
Shall future ages tell the woeful story, --
"Christ by His own was crucified again?"@1



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