WHY IS THERE WAR ON EARTH? WRITTEN ON A CALM AND BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAY, 1848. WHY is there war on earth? Earth is most sweet 'Tis now sweet Spring. Methinks 'twere wise to deem But there is war, because man craves the fruit Each crushing other, can compose one will, Constituent of universal truth. We would be the sons of Nature-would be free As Nature is. But can we then forget She hath no self to sacrifice: but man, And by the various sympathies of earth, That all are light, as a good man's good works, Thank God, the times are pass'd When fear and blindly-working ignorance Could govern man. "Tis Faith and duteous love Out of a multitude must form a state. We have escaped from Egypt; but we walk Yet we are spared; but shall we long be spared In sleep fool-hardy, or ingrate repining, When all around, as from the serpent's tooth Save naked power, unclad with reverend form, LINES WRITTEN BY H. C. IN THE FLY-LEAF OF A COPY OF LUCKETIUS IN the far north, for many a month unseen, Yet ofttimes there the boreal morning gleams, |