Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ROSE OF PEACE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


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First Line: If michael, leader of god's host
Last Line: A peace of heaven with hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Peace


If Michael, leader of God's host
When Heaven and Hell are met,
Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
He would his deeds forget.

Brooding no more upon God's wars
In his Divine homestead,
He would go weave out of the stars
A chaplet for your head.

And all folk seeing him bow down,
And white stars tell your praise,
Would come at last to God's great town,
Led on by gentle ways;

And God would bid His warfare cease.
Saying all things were well;
And softly make a rosy peace,
A peace of Heaven with Hell.





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