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Music Crazed with the Belgian blood so lately shed, the bestial Prussian seeks the ocean's bed.

In Neptune's realm, the wretched coward lurks,

And on the world his wonted evil works, Like slinking cur, he bites where none oppose,

Victorious over babes, his valor grows.

One fateful day may such be never more. A stately vessel left Columbia's shore.

Upon the wave in fearless grandeur road, nor feared to bear its blameless, helpless load.

No human risk, the watchful captain ran, protected by the common laws of man, the laws of man.

What laws can curb or sway the Prussian wolf with manhood cast away, his idle threat,

too hideous for belief, with its foul truth plunged nations into grief.

So that immortal work of poetry was the Crime of Crimes, Lusitania, 1915,

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