Matthew Arnold Quotes on War
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm, Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese.