Robert Burns


Lines


I MURDER hate by field or flood,
  Tho’ glory’s name may screen us;
In wars at hame I’ll spend my blood,
  Life-giving wars of Venus.

The deities that I adore
  Are social Peace and Plenty;
I’m better pleased to make one more,
  Than be the death of twenty.

1790




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