Poems

<h4><SPAN name="BLESSED_ARE_THE_PEACEMAKERS" id="BLESSED_ARE_THE_PEACEMAKERS"></SPAN>BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS</h4> <p>Of old with a divided heart<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">I saw my people's pride expand,</span><br/> Since a man's soul is torn apart<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">By mother earth and fatherland.</span><br/> <br/> I knew, through many a tangled tale,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Glory and truth not one but two:</span><br/> King, Constable, and Amirail<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Took me like trumpets: but I knew</span><br/> <br/> A blacker thing than blood's own dye<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Weighed down great Hawkins on the sea;</span><br/> And Nelson turned his blindest eye<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">On Naples and on liberty.</span><br/> <br/> Therefore to you my thanks, O throne,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">O thousandfold and frozen folk,</span><br/> For whose cold frenzies all your own<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Battle of the Rivers broke;</span><br/> <br/> Who have no faith a man could mourn.<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor freedom any man desires;</span><br/> But in a new clean light of scorn<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Close up my quarrel with my sires;</span><br/> <br/> Who bring my English heart to me,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who mend me like a broken toy;</span><br/> Till I can see you fight and flee,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And laugh as if I were a boy.</span><br/> <br/><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />