Wayside pictures, hymns, and poems . 2 G 2 PEACE POEMS. TO THE BAEONESS BURDETT COUTTS DISTINGUISHED FOE HER LIBERALITY TO THE WORKING CLASSES AND HER CHRISTIAN CONSIDERATION OF THE TOILERS OF GREAT BRITAIN, WHOSE GENEROUS NAME WILL GO DOWN TO POSTERITY AS THE BENEFACTRESS OF MANKIND, THESE PEACE POEMS ARE BY PERMISSION BY THE AUTHOR. July, 1872. *Srx. THE WAR-FIEND. ? AN! Christian ! Briton ! up, bestir thyself!Eed War is rampant. From his cave of bones,Of numerous nations slaughtered in the rushes forth with fury, fire, andflame. With ringing steel, with weapons fir
Wayside pictures, hymns, and poems . 2 G 2 PEACE POEMS. TO THE BAEONESS BURDETT COUTTS DISTINGUISHED FOE HER LIBERALITY TO THE WORKING CLASSES AND HER CHRISTIAN CONSIDERATION OF THE TOILERS OF GREAT BRITAIN, WHOSE GENEROUS NAME WILL GO DOWN TO POSTERITY AS THE BENEFACTRESS OF MANKIND, THESE PEACE POEMS ARE BY PERMISSION BY THE AUTHOR. July, 1872. *Srx. THE WAR-FIEND. ? AN! Christian ! Briton ! up, bestir thyself!Eed War is rampant. From his cave of bones,Of numerous nations slaughtered in the rushes forth with fury, fire, andflame. With ringing steel, with weapons fire-winged monsters echoing deeds of War is rampant, smearing the high hillsAnd the low valleys with the f:ore of men,Snapping the bond of human driving man to kill his fellow-man,Who cuts and stabs him in the awful be himself the sport of polished by those he should embrace and has met his neighbour on the both shoot wildly at each other turns his flashing eyes upon his foe,Intent to plunge the dagger in his heart. Forth from his cave he comes, this gory fiend. Where he so long has fed on human flesh Mown down for him, mown down in days of yore. And heaped into his vault by bloody hands : Forth from his cave he comes with murderous mien, And the earth trembles
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