Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WASTE OF WAR, by VIOLA PERRY WANGER


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THE WASTE OF WAR, by                    
First Line: We are the songs that were never sung
Last Line: Between a sun and a sun.
Subject(s): War


We are the songs that were never sung,
Pictures that never will be;
We are the ghosts of the stately ships,
That never will sail the sea.
We are the wraiths of a million babes,
That will never, never be born,
And we are the shadowy whispering rows
Of unplanted fields of corn.
We are the thousand glorious things,
That living hands would have done --
But we perished there on the battle field,
Between a sun and a sun.





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