We did not hate. We did not want to kill. We did not want to kill -- nor yet to die. They taught us murder much against our will. Such ghastly murder! Can men justify Themselves for setting us against our kind, For throwing on the altar of their power Our youth, our highest dreams, our lives -- to find Only grey ashes in the final hour? They told us we were giving to the world Peace, and we dimly thought we understood; Yet only we, who in war's kiln were hurled, Discovered universal brotherhood. We have found peace out here where we are lying; But will men never find peace save by dying? |