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You have wronged for the Day, you have longed for the day,That lit the awful flame,'Tis nothing to you that hill and plainYield sheaves of dead men amid the grain;The widows mourn for loved ones slain,And mothers curse your name.
But for the Day there's a price to pay,For the sleepers under the sod,And He you have mocked for many a day-Listen and hear what He has to say;"Vengeance is mine, I will replay."What can you say to God?
by Henry ChappellRailway porter Bath Eng.
[Chappell was known as the Bath railway poet. This poem was first published in the Daily Express on 22 Aug. 1914]
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