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aking to wish existence timeless, null,Sirius they watched above where armies fell;He seemed to check his flapping when, in the lullOf night a boom came thencewise, like the dullPlunge of a stone dropped into some deep well. V So, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowlyWere dead and damned, there sounded “War is done!”One morrow. Said the bereft, and meek, and lowly,“Will men some day be given to grace? yea, wholly,And in good sooth, as our dreams used to run?”
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