Cease to War (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cease to War For this little volume I lay claim to no literary merit. I should not like to say that the verses contained herein constitute good poetry, neither do i call myself a poet. In this strenuous age of commercialism, one should carefully avoid becoming known as a seer of visions and a dreamer of dreams. In the past ages poets were reverenced by their contemporaries, and their verses were ravenously read by hosts of admirers. From the pen of Andrew Fletcher we have these words: "I knew a very wise man that held that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." A wise man who dared hold such an idea in this, the Twentieth Century, would be made to appear foolish thereby: for he might sing until the waves of the ocean became imbued with the symphony, and wafted his melodies even unto the uttermost parts of the earth, and his rhythm would not penetrate the senses of his fellow-man. Horace said: "But if among the lyric bards you grant me a place, with crest exalted I shall strike the stars." Did Horace live in our time, he might be glad to hide his light under a bushel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.