WE that look on, with God's goodwill, Have one plain duty to fulfil: To drive -- by all fair means -- afar This hideous Juggernaut of War, And teach the Future not to kill. But there's a plainer duty still: We need to meet the instant ill, To heal the wound, to hide the scar -- We that look on! What timelier task for brain and quill Than aiding eyes no light can thrill, No sight of all good things that are, No morning sky, no evening star -- Shall we not help with all our skill, We that look on? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WIND (2) by EMILY DICKINSON THEOLOGY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: OCTOBER by EDMUND SPENSER THE SCHOOL GIRL by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE VARIUM ET MUTABILE by THOMAS WYATT BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |