After [Over the din of battle]

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Title:     After [Over the din of battle]
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [More Titles by Wilcox]

Over the din of battle,
Over the cannons' rattle,
Over the strident voices of men and their dying groans,
I hear the falling of thrones.

Out of the wild disorder
That spreads from border to border,
I see a new world rising from ashes of ancient towns;
And the rulers wear no crowns.

Over the blood-charged water,
Over the fields of slaughter,
Down to the hidden vaults of Time, where lie the worn-out things,
I see the passing of kings.

[The end]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem: After

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