John Oxenham

Said The Wounded One:—

       Just see that we get full value
   Of that for which we have paid.
   The price has been a heavy one,
   But the goods are there—and we’ve paid–.
   We’ve paid in our toil and our woundings;
   We’ve paid in the blood we’ve shed;
   We’ve paid in our bitter hardships;
   We’ve paid with our many dead.
 
       It’s not payment in kind we ask for,
   Two wrongs don’t make much of a right.
   All we ask is—that, what we have paid for,
   You secure for us, all right and tight.
 
       The Peace of the World’s what we’re after;
   We’ve all had enough of King Cain,
   And the Kaiser and all his bully-men,
   With their World-Power big on the brain.
 
       No!—we fought with a definite object,
   And it’s this—and we want it made plain,—
   That it’s God, and not any devil,
   That’s to rule in the world again,
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