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War

Witter Bynner

Fools, fools, fools, 
Your blood is hot to-day. 
         It cools 
When you are clay. 
It joins the very clod 
Wherein you look at God, 
Wherein at last you see 
         The living God 
         The loving God, 
Which was your enemy. 

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 19, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.

About this Poem 

“War” was published in 1914 in The Nation.

Witter Bynner was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1881. He is the author of New Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960), Take Away the Darkness (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947) and Tiger (M. Kennerley, 1913). He died on June 1, 1968.