Jesse Edgar Middleton,
Peace and War
“ God made such horrors? Count that word a lie. God made the pleasant river, clear and blue, Peace is His handiwork, and love, and joy, While man makes sewers and artillery, Grim bayonets, and howitzers and shell, The battle-squadron surging through the tides, Ten thousand hecatombs of reeking red And all the vile magnificence of War. ”
