Page:General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems.djvu/67

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
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These are a portent and a call to arms.
Our protest turns into a battle cry:
"Our shame must end, our States be free and clean;
And in this war we choose to live and die."

[So far as the writer knows this is the first use of the popular term Armageddon in present day politics.]