Why has the shame of bloody battles stood? The ancient Book of value more than gold Relates, for years, how soldiers' lives are sold. Do nations value victory's dreary load? Must love or terror reign upon God's road? The pyramids where lie the kings of old Grew great in piles that slavery's hardship told And wealth was ground in grief on God's abode. To hear the bugles call, the trumpets, roar Of cannon, beat of drums, the heat, the flare! Does striving civilization welcome war? What says the Book: then beat the sword and spear To plowshare and to pruninghook? Or bear The wars that human hearts abhor and fear? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES PSALM 116 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE TREE by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 12 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 2D SERIES. DEDICATION by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |