Said The Wounded One:--

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Title:     Said The Wounded One:--
Author: John Oxenham [More Titles by Oxenham]

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,

[The end]
John Oxenham's poem: Said The Wounded One:--

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