New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-22
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Patience proud and high spirited nations.
England, America bear and fosbear .
Patience if both Of us viii but have natence II y
AL may be well by trife Of care Hi
Only, instead Of not words with each other, 5t h
Hear without striking, and speak without guiIe
And, as to war between brother and brother. #
Count up the cost Of it it worth while?
There should, indeed, be invincible causes s @
More than matter Of pique or Of pride,
More than some questions and bubbles Of clauses,
Partisan sqaibs and whatever beside
There should be wrongs and much longeaduring,
Mutual sins in a black double file, ss$7Sstsil
There should be evils past bearing or curing,
Ere such a war could be ever worth while.
What? shall a blunder or two and bluster, y
Got up by governments for their own ends,
Or the fierce pranks of some shrewd FiIibuster
Turn into enemies knsmen and friends2
Both OF us may be ambitious and Jealous ~
Some even here in this tight little isle, .5s.
Much sach as you, are intractable fellows -
But to be foes would be hardly worth while.
Freedoms own children each other DESTROYING, n
Raving in folly, and raging in sin /!
Think how the despots Of Europe enjoying
Such vile massacre gladly would grin; tt
Think Of the blood to be poured ont like water,
e Blood to disgrace usas well as detile, ,s5 H.
Ihink OF the havoc and rapine and slaughter
Z All in one fapily--Is it worth while?
Ruin without mitigation or measure, r6 a. s. 43s4
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i. havaglng all that is good in the world, , n,
blyrlads OF lives and millions of treasure t
Down to perditi0n, remorselessly hurI'd y; sIn2&
Liberty seandalised progress retarded fiji fssa s 8a
Commerce BY wholesale on bankruptcy's file,
Countries laid desolate, cities bombarded, M y
All because pride says, q war is worth while!
that spirit Of better confiding, 5,, zgt.5, ,g,g
more than dlplomacy's craft comprehends, Gst h
Y ere the good rule of humanity guiding A.
governments now TO keep peoples good friends;
that no sanderous evil suspicious, s "A :985 n sSs
E NO bitter para graphs brimming with bile, $
Made us all utterly bad politicians,
Dreaming that such war would be worth while
All that is wicked on history's blazon ia.f s54ss
Would be but innocence gauged with onr crime
dn,t, such as wondering demons might gaze on,
Wide as the world, and unending with time q
For our carnage fraternal, gigantic, 5a9 8l}D,s5g
Broadly would crimson for mile upon miIe,sg IA
Both the world highways, Pacific, Atlantic, 4
Ay, and both hemispheres-Is Is it worth while?
Neither of us 1--WE are both AngloSaxon) ,ss u
Ever give up, nor ever give in;
victory neither have ever turn'd backs on, II
Always we perish, or always we win. 23i5i q
Russlanst and Pr1ssians. and other like tissue 81
Fight with courage we wouldn't reyile 49, + d.
But for us two there is only one issue,
Both must be conquerors lis it worth while?
No! we are Giants, but sons of one Mother,
Let not the pigmie5 rejoice in our strife
Let US forgive, as brother with brother
aye, and help on one another in life - 5H e r.
we can do good by wholesale together, 5-.tF ~ ii
Winning mans welfare and Heavens own smile,
we can do eyil--the scale is a feather =
Which is worth while-brother, which is wort
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