[Editor: This poem by William Blocksidge (also known as William Baylebridge) was published in Songs o’ the South (1908).]
Peace
Peace, gentle Peace, poor plaything of the mind,
Allotted to the lowly, kept from kings,
That ministers the broken heart to bind,
And speeds from all that sin, with sorrow, brings!
Source:
William Blocksidge, Songs o’ the South, London: Watts, 1908, p. 78
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