WHEN that great-minded man, Sir Edward Grey, Said to the hypocritic `prince of peace': "Let us confer, who hold the destinies Of Europe, ere the tempest breaks, and stay Its carnage!" the proud despot answered @3nay,@1 And by that great negation loosed the seas And winds of multitudinous miseries To rage around his empire for their prey. He might have uttered "Peace": Peace would have been. He might have abdicated ere he fought For such Satanic empire; but to win Power he refused. Therefore a rankling thought Festers henceforth with that refusal's sin: — He might have saved the world, and he would not. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE UNIMPLORED BELOVED by EDWARD SHANKS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 61. AL-MO'HYI by EDWIN ARNOLD TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: QUESTIONS by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER THE WAGES OF PRIDE by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1643 by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |