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SONG OF PEACE, by                    
First Line: Thou art beautiful, o peace!
Last Line: Let us love,—love on.
Subject(s): Peace


Thou art beautiful, O Peace!
Thou com'st like summer beams,
Like the glad golden horn
Of plenty in her dreams.
Lift up thy holy voice,—
It may not be in vain;
The earth's bright page, the golden age
May glad the world again:
Let us love,—love on.

Thou are beautiful, O Peace!
Earth spreads a teeming store,
With brighter hopes of heaven;
Vain man, what would ye more?
Away with wasting war,
Away with ruffian might;
A brother's hand, without a brand,
Can guard a brother's right!
Let us love,—love on.

Thou art beautiful, O Peace!
Each living scene we see
All pant for love's embrace,
All sigh for harmony.
The glorious, glorious sun,
Each heaven-lighted star
And every flower in fragrant bower
Cries out, "No war! No war!"
Let us love,—love on.

Thou art beautiful, O Peace!
Thy bright ideas bring
Girls with rosy garlands,
Birds with golden wing,
Bees with honey treasures,
Lambkins crowned with flowers,
The breath of May, the roundelay
Of joy in autumn bowers.
Let us love,—love on.

Thou art beautiful, O Peace!
The hour is coming fast
When the earth no more shall start
At the war-trumpet's blast;
When every man shall sit
Beneath his own fig tree,
Content in mind that all mankind
Are brothers,—let it be!
Let us love,—love on.





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