<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Tranquil Liberty</h1><p class="epigraph"></p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><p class="line">("Pax est tranquilla libertas.--</p><p>CICERO)</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">PEACE is no peace when all its dream is war;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Nor are repasts beneath the hair-swung sword,</p><p class="line">That awed in Syracuse the tyrant's board,</p><p class="line">Such banquets as the peoples hunger for.</p><p class="line">Not to Europa's bull need toreador</p><p class="line">Wave scarlet provocation ; and Accord</p><p class="line">Blooms ill from arsenals for ever stored</p><p class="line">With mouths of death for ever in act to roar.</p><p class="line">An areopagus of nations let</p><p class="line">Men found hereafter, puissant to restrain</p><p class="line">Flaunted armipotence, whether on earth or sea</p><p class="line">Or the outraged air, and suchlike peace beget</p><p class="line">As Tully envisioned ; peace itself being vain,</p><p class="line">That is not also tranquil liberty.<a class="footnote" href="#watson31" name="watson31-link" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">1</a></p></div></body></html> · Great War