<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">War and Peace.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">A <span class="smallcaps">hundred</span> toilsome years have rolled in vain</p><p class="line">Since one proud eagle drooped his shattered wings:</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Another rises -- and the welkin rings</p><p class="line">With the mad cry "For Glory" once again!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And legions rush through carnage to attain</p><p class="line">Some fancied good that blood-stained Conquest brings.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Is this the boast of Councils and of Kings,</p><p class="line">O God! to triumph over millions' pain?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Guardians of Good! Ye Nations of the West!</p><p class="line">Shall mind still worship brute Force deified?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'Tis Mind not Force doth Nations' worth attest:</p><p class="line">Force died with Rome -- high Thought hath outlived Greece!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Be thine, O England! thine the nobler pride</p><p class="line">To win true Glory with the arts of Peace!</p></div><p class="byline">NIZAMAT JUNG.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War