Poem by Rabindranath Tagore on the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937
The war drums are sounded.
Men force their features into frightfulness and gnash their teeth;
and before they rush out to gather raw human flesh for death
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Poem by Rabindranath Tagore on the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937
The war drums are sounded.
Men force their features into frightfulness and gnash their teeth;
and before they rush out to gather raw human flesh for death