To The Destroyers

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Title:     To The Destroyers
Author: Alfred Noyes [More Titles by Noyes]

Yes. You have shattered many an ancient wrong,
And we were with you, heart and mind and soul,
But there are fools who cast away control
In life and thought and art; because the Strong--
We dare to say it--have now destroyed so long,
That careless minds forget the unchanging goal--
The nobler Order which shall make us whole,
The Service which is freedom, beauty, song.

We shall be stoned as traitors to your cause
While the real traitors that you did not know,
Chaos and Vice, trumpet themselves as free.
Pray God that, loyal to the Eternal laws,
A little remnant, mauled by friend and foe,
Save you through Truth, and bring you Liberty.

[The end]
Alfred Noyes's poem: To The Destroyers

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