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发表于 2007-5-14 02:24:52
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<P>the original Mother's Day Proclamation </P><DL><DD>Arise then...women of this day! <DD>Arise, all women who have hearts! <DD>Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! <DD>Say firmly: <DD>"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, <DD>Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, <DD>For caresses and applause. <DD>Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn <DD>All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. <DD>We, the women of one country, <DD>Will be too tender of those of another country <DD>To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs." <DD>From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with <DD>Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! <DD>The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." <DD>Blood does not wipe our dishonor, <DD>Nor violence indicate possession. <DD>As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil <DD>At the summons of war, <DD>Let women now leave all that may be left of home <DD>For a great and earnest day of counsel. <DD>Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. <DD>Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means <DD>Whereby the great human family can live in peace... <DD>Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, <DD>But of God - <DD>In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask <DD>That a general congress of women without limit of nationality, <DD>May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient <DD>And the earliest period consistent with its objects, <DD>To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, <DD>The amicable settlement of international questions, <DD>The great and general interests of peace. </DD></DL> |
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