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Soon must it end, and out of its consuming fires may a new civilization arise!
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Soon must it end, and out of its consuming fires may a new civilization arise!”
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Sumner expresses hope that a new civilization will emerge from the destruction of the current conflict.
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