Love
Love and War
Translated by Leigh Hunt (1857) · From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1857)
Let us make love, let us make war,
This is your motto, boys, these are your courses ;
War may appear to cost people too dear.
But love reimburses, but love reimburses.
The foe and the fair, let 'em see what we are.
For the good of the nation, the good of the nation ;
What possible debtor can pay his debts better,
Than De-population with Re-population ?
Codex Note
Leigh Hunt's translation from the Chevalier de Boufflers.
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Hunt, Leigh. “Love and War.” Translated by Leigh Hunt. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hunt/99/.
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