here is but one message for the earth, Young men ...

There is but one message for the earth, Young men with fallen chests and old men's breath, dripping from their mouths. Ex-soldiers with horrors for a face, A pig's snout for a nose, The lost in doubt, the nearly mad, the young who, undeserving, have suffered the earth's wrong, The living dead left over from the war, Those filled with fear, caught in the cage, the broken winged, The flying loose, albino eyed, white, black, yellow and mulatto From Harlem, Bedlam, Babel, and the Ghetto, The Piccadi