MICHAEL ATTEWELL

Ares, God of War

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He may look splendid on parade,

But this is a well-known masquerade.

In truth he's an ugly, murdering brute,

And likes to maim, and burn, and loot.

And he's God of the plagues that

can follow on -

With cholera, typhus and so on,

After the actual strife has gone.