Around the year with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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   Why should the poet of these pregnant times
   Be asked to sing of war's unholy crimes?

   Are there not better themes in this great age
   For pen of poet, or for voice of sage

   Than those old tales of killing?  Song is dumb
   Only that greater song in time may come.

   When comes the bard, he whom the world waits for,
   He will not sing of War.
                                                       The Poet's Theme.