Has The World Gone Mad?

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Title:     Has The World Gone Mad?
Author: Abner Cosens [More Titles by Cosens]

December, 1916

What a lack of reason
In this earthly throng!
In and out of season
Everything goes wrong;
Over there in Europe
Kaiser, king and czar,
Raise a mighty flare up,
Plunge a world in war.

Neither king nor kaiser
Down in Mexico,
Are the people wiser?
Echo answers, "No!"
There, contending factions
Murder, pillage, burn;
Plunder and exactions
Everywhere you turn.

Has the world gone crazy?
Are the men all fools?
Is our thinking hazy,
Spite of all our schools?

[The end]
Abner Cosens's poem: Has The World Gone Mad?

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