==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Francis Saltus Saltus: Selections on peace and war ==== Francis Saltus SaltusGérard de Nerval Thy gentle life was one long spirit-dream!Pale envy on thy white soul left no stain!Maugre ingratitude, neglect, disdain,Thou held’st all men in sovereign esteem! Poor wanderer through the earth’s broad ways, thy themeWas one of utter peace; thy charming strainLulled with delicious balm our mental pain,Greek in its Art, and in its Faith supreme! Poet, the muse that such soft accents gaveTo this bad world, stronger than antique creedsLives in our hearts, where naught her beauty mars.As thy calm life has been, so is thy grave,Tranquil and sweet amid the flowers and reeds,Serene beneath the splendor of sad stars! *** From Moods of MadnessSong of a Fiend Make the fetid cauldron flow,Murder reigns and men are slaves,There is place for more below,Make fresh wine and dig new graves,Hear the bellowing crowd that raves,Here’s to War and Woe!
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