A thousand creeds and battle-cries, A thousand warring soci… - Alfred Noyes

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A thousand creeds and battle-cries, A thousand warring social schemes, A thousand new moralities,
And twenty thousand thousand dreams! Each on his own anarchic way, From the old order breaking free, — Our ruined world desires, you say, License, once more, not Liberty.

Alfred Noyes

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Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 – 28 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.

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