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In response.

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This is the last
stanza of a long poem

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about the beginnings
of Western civilization

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having been founded in war.

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"I praise the gesture
of a generous hand that

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smooths unequal wrongs
into an equal peace, that

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would turn the cost
of a military aileron

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into ivy and guitar strings
and terraces of rice.

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I praise the kiss,
the bowing, the word,

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that mark an instant of
human time defined by loving.

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I celebrate your reluctance
to think of harm.

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Praise the thought, the
reasoning, the prayer, too,

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and the tragic play that
portrays the destroyer

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and does not destroy."

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