Peace

Peace is not inertia, not indifference, no,

nor sleep!

It is not blindness to our country's needs

and rights;

Nor is it cowardice nor selfish love of ease.

They lie who say so--lie to make the right

seem wrong,

To cover what they fain would have the

world believe--

That fighting is the only way to gain our

ends.

Dear God--

Remind them, then, of those who lie in for-

eign fields,

Their fathers, or their brothers, or the friends

of friends!

No strangers those who died because we

dared not peace;

For peace is courage, and the brave are

ever they

Who stand against the throng and say, "I

will not kill."

Peace is a quiet world in which to live and

work;

Peace is the clasp of hands across the sun-

dering sea;

Peace is a dream that we ourselves may

bring to pass,

If we but face the nations, strong in truth

and right.