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Subject: Lay Down Your Arms (traditional ghazel)

Author:
Erin A. Thomas

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Date Posted: 03:54:20 10/27/01 Sat
Author Host/IP: adsl-64-169-160-10.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net/64.169.160.10

Dark raging war is ended, lay down your arms;
Let broken days wax mended, lay down your arms.

Great storm past at last, seas dream in placid rest;
No more great threats now scended, lay down your arms.

From out the dark, fresh beginnings bright draw nigh;
New hopes may yet be tended, lay down your arms.

Time is come to free grim resentments and harms;
Let brave new ways go wended, lay down your arms.

Tread forth into fantastic revealing quest;
Let heal life long upended, lay down your arms.

Unfetter questions deep, free them as a sigh;
Answers will be extended, lay down your arms.

Release reactions learned to faithless alarms,
And grasp judgements emended, lay down your arms.

Make not bitter hatreds drear a place to nest;
From sorrows rise transcended, lay down your arms.

Oh Zahaar, old warrior, let the fighting lie,
And past wrongs be amended, lay down your arms.

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Subject	Author	Date
**WELCOME**	Lori S. Maynard	12:49:09 10/27/01 Sat