Love
If Hatred of the Calm and Good
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
If hatred of the calm and good,
And quenchless thirst of human blood,
Should rouse a restless race again,
And new Napoleons scour the plain,
Ye arbiters of nations, spare
The land of Rabelais and Moliere,
But swing those panthers by the ears
Across the grating of Algiers.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “If Hatred of the Calm and Good.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/486/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “If Hatred of the Calm and Good.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/486/.
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