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Resolve

Let me not think of blood to-night--

So doing

It will be harder still to fight:

Peace's wooing

Sucks blood making me white

And tremulous--

Thus, thus

I will harden yet my heart

Gaze into horror's face

Unafraid, without a trace

Of tenderness!

Title
Resolve
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greatwar_kerrdaubs019
Item sets
War Daubs: Poems
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