Vachel Lindsay - The Unpardonable SinVachel Lindsay - The Unpardonable Sin
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: —
To speak of bloody power as right divine,
And call on God to guard each vile chief`s house,
And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine:—
To go forth killing in White Mercy`s name,
Making the trenches stink with spattered brains,
Tearing the nerves and arteries apart,
Sowing with flesh the unreaped golden plains.
In any Church`s name, to sack fair towns,
And turn each home into a screaming sty,
To make the little children fugitive,
And have their mothers for a quick death cry,—
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost:
This is the sin no purging can atone:—
To send forth rapine in the name of Christ:—
To set the face, and make the heart a stone.
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