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420 Whose Children? How will it fare with the peace we have made for our children, With the order and seemliness, In the days when our children Divide the rule of the earth with men made wolfish by hunger, Showing its fangs long after In sudden, unreckoning rancors. How will it be when the light we have won for our children Is darkened by brains befumbled For the lack of the crumbs that fall from our childrens’ tables; When the men that our children Must trade with, work with—or fight with Remember the years of their hunger, How will it be in that day With our children? Editor’s Notes AU 639; typescript with a note at the end, “Written for the Russian Children’s Famine Relief, Feb. 14, 1922.” ...

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