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R.I.P (pages) - Of War and Peace
A childs Lament deals with nuclear weapons, but here I am looking at things from a completely new perspective, that of the atomic bomb itself.
Well, it's always best to look at things from every side.
A Childs Lament
Oh come you young children Yes come unto me Come bow your sweet heads with pain and misery Oh come you young children and cry out so loud I’ve just bought your lives With my mushroom cloud
Your fathers will scream Your mothers will too They’ll all prey to God Yet no good will it do
I’m the one called the Bomb I’m your sweet bitter end I kill all the living With the dust that I send
Yet think you young children and listen to me This is the way they made me to be I can’t help being evil I can’t help being bad I was made by mankind Your mums and your dads. |
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The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets.
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