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ON THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE LYRE, - 'TIS WRITTEN, - IN AGES LONG AGO
Last Line: SO BE SHE BORN AGAIN!
Subject(s): PEACE; SINO-JAPANESE WAR (1894-95);
THE lyre, -- 'tis written, -- in ages long ago,
Grew from the tense string of the warrior's bow.
If Music thus was born of hate and pain,
So be she born again!



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