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Ah, love and love alone at last will solve All the vast, threatening questions that distract Mankind; that fellow-men in strife array, And the whole world with fierce contentions rend. Still keep your idle millions under arms— Fed on the hard-earned substance of the poor— Still watch each other with keen jealousy, Still slaughter thousands on the field of war, Or strive with statesman's craft to arbitrate; Thread the sly mazes of diplomacy, Try communistic cures for every ill, And when all fails at last, for lack of love, Try love—the mightiest of them all—and win!
Ah, love and love alone at last will solve All the vast, threatening questions that distract Mankind; that fellow-men in strife array, And the whole world with fierce contentions rend. Still keep your idle millions under arms— Fed on the hard-earned substance of the poor— Still watch each other with keen jealousy, Still slaughter thousands on the field of war, Or strive with statesman's craft to arbitrate; Thread the sly mazes of diplomacy, Try communistic cures for every ill, And when all fails at last, for lack of love, Try love—the mightiest of them all—and win!
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Henry Nehemiah Dodge
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 49; printed byline: Henry Nehemiah Dodge; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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