MIGHT AND RIGHT


If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage;
If Right made Might, this were the golden age;
But now, until we win the long campaign,
Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

July 1, 1915.



THE PRICE OF PEACE


Peace without Justice is a low estate,--
A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,--
We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

December 28, 1916.



STORM-MUSIC


O Music hast thou only heard
The laughing river, the singing bird,