“Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears
Waste of youth's most precious years,
Waste of ways the saints have trod,
Waste of Glory, waste of God,
War!”

—  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

Source: from Waste, in More Rough Rhymes of a Padre (1919)

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