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Demand the best, O Peace! and teach thy sons
They need not rush in front, of death charged guns
With murder in their hearts, to prove their worth
The grandest heroes who have graced the earth
Were love filled souls, who did not seek the fray
But chose the safe, hard, high, and lonely way.
Of self-less labor for a suffering world.

Beneath our glorious flag, again unfurled
In victory - such heroes wait, to be
Called into bloodless action _ Peace, by thee
Be thou insistent, in thy stern demand
And wise great men, shall rise up, in the land.