Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

868 THE pAEAN OF PEACE.
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The Wind ia murmuring a lullaby,
Liat to hia aigh !
Have we not laid a white flower to sleep,
Folded in garments fair and sweet.
Preued on her mute lips our last goodby ?­
God knows we mitJI.I her. you and I,
Through her long sleep.
The Wind is whispering a lullaby,­
Nay. do not 11igh!
Perhaps he is lulling our flower to Bleep,
Down in Earth'• cradle, still and deep.
Hush! you will wake her with your cry,
We mu11t be patient, you and I.
She will not alway" "~P·
THE PAEAN OF PEACE.
With ever IIOMA wrong to be righting,
With ~~elf ev"r -king for plACe,
The worltl hRH t-n Mtriving and fighting
Since man WM evolv..d out of KP"'-"'·
Bold hiabory into 1lark ""'finDH
Hia turchlighr h"" fearl.,aa)y CBat.
He ahowK IIR trii>M w11rring in l"'finDK
ln the jun.cle of agee long ~·
Religion. forgetting her station.
Forgetting lu.r birthright from God.
Set nation to warring with nation
And -ttered diaaenaion abroad.
De,..- creed11 hue made men kill each other,
Fair faith baa bred hate and dnpair,
And brother h1111 battled with brother
Becatllll! of a difference in prayer.
But earth haa lfl'O'II'tl wieer and kinder,
Forman ia evoiYing a 11011!.
From wara of an age that was blinder
We riee co a peAce girdled goal.
Where once men would mnrder in trtoason
And alaughter each other in hordflll.
Th .. v now meet together and reason,
With thought& for their weApona. not nrorda.
Th., brute in humanity dwiodlea
And 1-na aa time speeds Rlon~r.
And the spark of divinity kindles
And blazea up brightly Mnd strong.
The -r can behold in the diatanc"
The race that Rh..JI people the world­
:Strong men of A godlike existence,
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