“Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.
Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,
Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
Do not weep.
War is kind.”

—  Stephen Crane

Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War is Kind, st. 3
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)

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