Page:Armistice Day.djvu/308

286 Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,

Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,

Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;

Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there

But only agony, and that has ending;

And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

I WOULD THAT WARS SHOULD CEASE

BY ALFRED TENNYSON

that wars should cease,

I would the globe from end to end

Might sow and reap in peace,

And some new Spirit o'erbear the old,

Or Trade refrain the Powers

From war with kindly links of gold,

Or Love with wreaths of flowers.

Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all

My friends and brother souls,

With all the peoples, great and small,

That wheel between the poles.

But since our mortal shadow, Ill,

To waste this earth began—