PEACE.
O Peace! thou source and soul of social life;
Beneath whose calm inspiring influence
Science his views enlarges, Art refines,
And swelling Commerce opens all her ports.
Britannia. J. THOMSON.
Ay, but give me worship and quietness;
I like it better than a dangerous honor.
King Henry VI., Pt. III. Act iv. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For freedom only deals the deadly blow:
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.
Written in an Album. J.Q. ADAMS.
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace,
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
King Richard III., Act v. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.
Richelieu, Act ii. Sc. 2. E. BULWER-LYTTON.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest:
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser.
King Henry IV., Pt. II. Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,
And lover's sonnets turned to holy psalms;
A man at arms must now serve on his knees,
And feed on prayers, which are his age's alms.
Polyhymnia. G. PEELE.
Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
Night Thoughts, Night V. DR. E. YOUNG.
Till each man finds his own in all men's good,
And all men work in noble brotherhood,
Breaking their mailèd fleets and armèd towers,
And ruling by obeying Nature's powers,
And gathering all the fruits of peace and crowned with all her flowers.
Ode, sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition.
A. TENNYSON.