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peace by eleanor farjeon - the war poetry society lyrics lyrics

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i am as awful as my brother war
i am the sudden silence after clamour
i am the face that shows the seamy scar
when blood and frenzy has lost its glamour
men in my pause shall know the cost at last
that is not to be paid in triumphs or tears
men will begin to judge the thing that’s past
as men will judge it in a hundred years

nations! whose ravenous engines must be fed
endlessly with the father and the son
my naked light upon your darkness, dread! +
by which ye shall behold what ye have done:
whereon, more like a vulture than a dove
ye set my seal in hatred, not in love

let no man call me good. i am not blest
my single virtue is the end of crimes
i only am the period of unrest
the ceasing of horrors of the times;
my good is but the negative of ill
such ill as bends the spirit with despair
such ill as makes the nations’ soul stand still
and freeze to stone beneath a gorgon glare

be blunt, and say that peace is but a state
wherein the active soul is free to move
and nations only show as mean or great
according to the spirit then they prove. +
o which of ye whose battle+cry is hate
will first in peace dare shout the name of love?

- peace by eleanor farjeon lyrics

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