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Women, Arise!

Inscribed to the International Conference of Women Workers.
by Edwin Markham.

Men - they have failed to build the world in joy:
Behold the dust of Babylon and Troy
Behold Palmyra faded to a name
Behold all Europe black with battle flame!
O mothers, will you longer give your sons
To Feed the awful hunget of the guns?
O women of earth, this is an hour of fate:
Come forth to build the safety of the State!

What is the worth of all these battle drums
If from the field the loved one never comes?
What all these loud hozannas to the brave
If all you share is some forgotten grave?
What all these flags rejoicing overhead
If you are left to watch above your dead?
O women of earth, this is an hour of fate:
Come forth to build the safety of the State!

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