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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917"

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And Finally--
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| AMERICA | | |
| DECLARES | | PEACE! |
| WAR. | | |
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It will be hard to lose these.
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FRITZ'S APOLOGIA.
Yes, war is horrible and hideous--
It jars upon my sense fastidious,
My "noble instincts," to decline
To actions that are not divine.
So, when I mutilate your pictures,
So far from meriting your strictures,
Compassion rather is my due
For doing what I hate to do.
It grieves my super-saintly soul
Even to smash a china bowl;
To carry off expensive clocks
My tender conscience sears and shocks;
I really don't enjoy at all
Hacking to bits a panelled hall,
Rare books with priceless bindings burning,
Or boudoirs into cesspools turning.


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