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,
