taking up armsA Poem by redd Brick Keshner"Taking Up Arms"
( © 2001 )
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War is come upon us,
imposing our timid nation
to rise up and take arms.
I will march off along
with the rest of your sons
to that sea of blood,
Supplied by the rivers
of our throbbing wounds;
while honour and patriotism
collide in barbaric swill -
Tearing open our bodies
in those fields of hate
in that cold strange land.
This war is not our own;
We did not ask for this.
But as sons of our Fatherland,
we march off to war -
to fill that crimson sea.
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