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 WAR

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. Butler's lines misquoted by Goldsmith in a publication of Newbery, the publisher, The Art of Poetry on a New Plan. Vol. II. P. 147. The first lines appear in Musarum Delicia. Collection by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. (1656) Accredited by some authorities to Suckling, but not confirmed by Mennis. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Archtlochus, Demosthenes, Erasmus, Menander, Satyre, Scarron, TerTULLIAN.) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 843 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhaps may fight again. A Pleasant Satyre or Poesie. From the French. (About 1595) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 843 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Bloody wars at first began, The artificial plague of man, That from his own invention rise, To scourge his own iniquities. Butler—Satire. Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man. L. 105. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 843 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 16 | text = O proud was our army that morning That stood where the pine darkly towers, When Sherman said—"Boys, you are weary, This day fair Savannah is ours." Then sang we a song for our chieftain That echoed o'er river and lea, And the stars on our banner shone brighter When Sherman marched down to the sea. | author = S. H. M. Byers | work = Sherman's March to the Sea. | place = Last stanza. | topic = War | page = 843 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 17 | text = War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife! " | author = Byron | work = Childe Harold. | place = Canto I St. 86. | topic = War | page = 843 }}