Joan Baez - I Saw the Vision of Armies lyrics

I saw the vision of armies
And I saw, as in noiseless
Dreams, hundreds of battle-flags
Borne through the smoke of the battles
And pierced with missiles, I saw them, and
Carried, hither and yon through the smoke
And torn and bloody
And at last but a few shreds of
'the flags left on the staffs
(and all in silence)
And the staffs all splintered and broken

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, and
The white skeletons of young men, i saw them
I saw the debris and debris
Of all dead soldiers
But I saw they were not as was thought
They themselves were fully at rest
They suffered not
The living remained and suffered
The mother suffered, and the
Wife and the child and
The musing comrade suffered
And the armies that remained suffered