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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Feb 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 8.

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W A R.

By James Russell Lowell

WHENE'ER contending princes fight, For private pique or public right, Armies are raised, the fleets are manned, They combat both by sea and land.
When, after many battles past, Both, tired with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why, taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt. —James Russell Lowell.