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CUI BONO?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 39.

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CUI BONO?

By John Kendrick Bangs

Days of disaster, war, and doom; Filling a glad green earth with gloom, What are ye for, Ye days of war?
What has man done, that o’er his head Clatter and crash these bolts of dread? Why has the sunshine gone from life? Why has sweet peace given way to strife? Why are the fields that once were green Now drenched with blood of heroes seen?
Why has the sea Risen in awful majesty, In anger wild, And swallowed defenceless woman and child?
What is man’s sin That he requires such discipline?
Days of disaster, doom, and war, What are ye for?
—John Kendrick Bangs, in Harper’s Weekly.