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OwA>%^vvw\ ^ ^W>), i Wvw %\iU.VwA^^ 1 THE CUP OF CIVILIZATION From •SONGS OF IHi: UNIVERSE" By Ray Lewis F^ditPiJ bv isadore Bcrntlein HUDUSHED BY McCONNF.LL & CONNOR FLUSHING. N V i The Cup of Civilization THE CUP OF CIVILIZATION War! War? War! Now ihall we taste hot blood Poured into the Self-deluded Cup of Civilization. War! War! War! For men of able bodies And clear minds Play at a game Where life is made the stakes. War, which breaks the Ten Commandments; War. which leaves the nation a legacy Of maimed men. beggars, widows, orphans; War. the Arch-Disorganizer of the home; War. which sweeps through the land Like a Destroying Angel Slaying all the First-born; War. which hurls us back To the savagery of barbarism And proves conclusively That Reason is still an Infant Upon whose guidance We place no dependence. Vhe Cup of Civilisation In the Cave-age, When man grieved man. They came to bioMn And he, who obtained The firit throat-clutch. Choked out the life Of the other. To talk their grievance over. To reason on a give and take baii* Was beyond their knowledge: The mind had not evolved To that degree. To-day we split the finest hairs On Birth. Growth and Death. 'Till each of us salaams and murmur*. "My brother, you are right; Friends let us be, Although we move in opposites." 66144 Vhe Cup of ClvlHtalion All lyrtemi of philosophy Gi\e riie to an opposing thought — Is not a question which involves The life of a nation One which has to do with reason's power for dedaion? Shall we forget our menul growth And look upon an opposite thought As an enemy? Shall we give no opportunity for defense. But, like in Stony Ages, Secretly attack And hurl to death? War is the Hound of Woe Whose incessant howling Turns men deaf or mad: Whose open jaws And blood-stained lips Must forever be filled With bleeding victims. War sits like Cerberus At the Gates of Hell Welcoming the passing throng. Heed not this wily deceiver Who opens wide die portals To the music of the fife and drum; '1 is but to drown out the cries of ravaged women. The wails of infants tugging at dead breasts. The moaning of the dying left alone at night Upon the Battlefield, The blood-curdling shrieks of disembodied spirits Seeking for their bodies. Not knowing yet tha^ they are dead. The Cup of Ci^tiUMation Over the Water* of Night Charon come* in hit boat; Upon the prow Grim the Death-head And picking out our itronge^t men From whom the Soul of Good Judgr. ent Hat momentarily departed. Leaving them living yet dead. He tteen them to the Scene of War Centered in the Heart of Hell. Here man kills nun without reason. Even without Pauion's Excuse And Pluto, gathering up their soub. Builds for himself A greater Kingdom of Darkness. "Che Cup of Ci\>ilization Look! look! beyond, beyond; The heaped up bodies of the dead Being burnt To kill the pestilence Of stinking flesh. Look! look! beyond, beyond; The trench into which is thrown A huddled mass With staring eyes. Swollen lips. Shattered arms — Arms that once enfolded us. Lips that yesterday we kissed; Husband, child, lover; Each vein of our beloved one We treasured; And strove ever to guard With jealous care That body from all harm. War makes of men Clods of earth And uses them To stuff the gaping wounds Which cannons tear in nature. 1 'Vhe Cup of Ci\>ilization Oh. shall there never be an end of war! Shall we, created in the Image of The Lord, Forget our destiny And tear and tear and tear The precious Fabric of Creation? Shall Lucifer indeed laugh In the Face of God and say, "Thou badest me to instruct the angels To descend within the Form of Man And I disobeyed; Was 1 not right? See how they rend each other's flesh — The flesh that Thou didst build Out of Thine Infinite Love And with Thine Infinite Care. Wouldst Thou redeem these forms Made murderous by Man, Place them amongst Thy Chosen Ones Who give Thee praise And know not disobedience? Dear Lord, uplift me from mine fallen state. They are not worthy that Lucifer. Who was one of Thy Mightest Servants. Should be so punished." 'Uhe Cup of C ivilizaiion And the Lord said, "Be still; be still; Banished from Mine Glory Shalt thou remain. Oh Lucifer. Until War shall cease And all forms return Through Peace and Love Into My Bosom. Be still; be still; I gave them birth, I, The God of Gods. I love Man more than all Mine Angels Vi'hen he shows righteousness ; For My Heavenlv ChiLren Have not known temptation. I have said, 'Not one shall be lost! For they v^•ho are Destroyers Shall leather up the Broken Particles Of Many Worlds And set them whole before Me.' " And Lucifer drew his cloak over his face That he mi'^ht not perish In That Great Light And turning from The Throne of Compassion He cried. "Oh. Man! Man! Man! W hen will vou cease to add 1 he Fuel of War to my Fires; Oh Peace! Peace! Peace! T'Aen I, Lucifer, Am wear>- of Hell." 1 I > oPM