A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Secure from actual warfare, we have loved

To swell the war-whoop, passionate for war!

Alas! for ages ignorant of all

Its ghastlier workings, famine, or blue plague,

Battle or siege, or flight through wintry snows!

We, this whole people, have been clamorous

For war and bloodshed; animating sports,

The which we pay for as a thing to talk of;

Spectators and not combatants! No guess

Anticipative of a wrong unfelt,