Excerpt from The Poetry of Peace I have to thank Mr. Charles Williams for help, the great value of which can only be appreciated by those who are fortunate enough to be familiar with his own published poems and to acknowledge gratefully the permission of the Poet Laureate to reprint his odes, of Mr. Hardy - to include his 'sick Battle God', and of Messrs. Burns and Oates to add Francis Thompson's ode - these poems all being inspired by the peace which ended the South African War. I am indebted also to Mrs. Dixon for the sonnet by the late Canon Dixon, a poet too little known to the late Mrs. Waterhouse for the solitary poem on the franco-prussian peace and to Mr. John Murray for the Vista of J. A. Symonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.