Would you end war? Create great Peace. ... The Peace that demands all of a man, His love, his life, his veriest self; Plunge him into the smelting fires of a work that becomes his child, Give him a hard Peace; a Peace of discipline and justice. ... Kindle him with vision, invite him to joy and adventure; Set him to work, not to create @3things@1 But to create @3man;@1 Yea, himself. Go, search your heart, America ... Turn from the machine to man, Build, while there is yet time, a creative Peace. ... While there is yet time! ... For if you reject great Peace, As surely as vile living brings disease, So surely will your selfishness bring war. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAD MAID'S SONG by ROBERT HERRICK ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865 by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER by JOANNA BAILLIE THE 'MONSTRE' BALLOON by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |