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The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2

Part 2 — "O WORLD, BE NOBLER"

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O world be nobler, for her sake! If she but knew thee what thou art, What wrongs are borne, what deeds are done In thee, beneath thy daily sun, Know'st thou not that her tender heart For pain and very shame would break? O World, be nobler, for her sake!

Laurence Binyon [1869-

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