" MAUD " AND THE WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sta,—I am wondering if any one besides myself has noticed how appropriate are the closing lines of Tennyson's " Maud" to the present war. I quote some of them :— " Tho' many a light shall darken, and many shall weep For those that are crush'd in the clash of jarring claims, Yet God's just wrath shall be wreak'd on a giant liar; And many a darkness into the light shall leap, And shine in the sudden making of splendid names, And noble thought be freer under the sun, And the heart of a people beat with one desire.
. . . . . . . . Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, We have proved we have hearts in a cause, we are noble still, And myself have awaked, as it seems, to the better mind; It is better to fight for the good than to rail at the ill: I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assign'd."
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