[Editor: This poem, by Edward Hunt, was published in The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 5 August 1946.]
A Vision of Peace
Since man dreamed dreams and visions saw
The gleam of peace has caught his gaze,
By prophet’s word and scholar’s lore
And many a poet’s noble phrase,
The hope of peace has urged men on
Amid the hates and lusts of war,
To plan the time, when, warfare gone,
True brotherhood shall light life’s ways,
Since words are granted to my pen
To cheer men on their upward road,
My vision speaks of peace, for when
Man’s reason reigns, the awful load
Of sin and strife shall lose its bands,
And love, like waters through a fen,
Shall cleanse with joy all climes and lands,
As peace at last finds true abode.
For the “Examiner” by EDWARD HUNT.
Source:
The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 5 August 1946, p. 2
Editor’s notes:
In this poem, most of the 1st and 3rd, and 2nd and 4th, lines rhyme, although not all.
clime = a place, region, or foreign land, particularly referred to with regard to its climate (usually used in the plural, e.g. “cooler climes”, “hot climes”, “lovely climes”, “Northern climes”, “other climes”, “Southern climes”, “sunny climes”, “warmer climes”)
fen = low-lying flat swampy land, which has been drained of water (usually for agricultural purposes); a marsh
[Editor: Changed “many a poets’” to “many a poet’s” (moved the apostrophe from after the “s” to before the “s”).]
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