What shall repay for waste of life?
What shall repay for pain?
O what shall give the land its food
If the young wheat have no rain?
How shall the reaper call it good,
If trampled it hath lain?

O what shall give the land its men
If children fight its wars,
If youth to the market-place they bring,
And man his manhood mars
To give some king a golden ring,
Or his lords their gilded stars?