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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD, by                    
First Line: Carve the name of the year you live in on your heart
Last Line: Alas! Alas! No brotherhood was there.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Holidays; New Year


Carve the name of the year you live in on your heart,
Write it on the mid-arch of hall of fame,
To tell to all who follow, "We did our part,
In a year that we were granted. It has a holy name."
Then tell how Peace, who was a fugitive
In our fair world -- nowhere to lay her head --
Was given by our hands a place to live,
A monument we builded to our dead.

For they, defrauded ones, will never rest
Within the conscience and the troubled mind,
Until our common honesty attest
By building what we bade them die to find.
"For brotherhood, please kill!" was our sweet prayer!
Alas! Alas! no brotherhood was there.





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