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Poem by Henry Van Dyke


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.



Henry Van Dyke


Henry Van Dyke's other poems:
  1. The Wind of Sorrow
  2. Portrait and Reality
  3. Dulcis Memoria
  4. To Julia Marlowe
  5. War-Music


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