BETTER PEACE THAN WAR

 

BETTER PEACE THAN WAR

            Peace sustains life, war destroys it. Given a choice, always prefer peace to war. Peace is prosperity, war is adversity; the former is joy and  delight ;  the latter is gloom and sorrow.

            The English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) said in the poem “Ring out, Wild Bells”, published in 1850:

            Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

            The faithless coldness of the times;

            Ring  out, ring out my mournful rhymes,

            But ring the fuller minstrel in.   

 

          Ring out false pride in place and blood,

            The civic slander and the spite;

            Ring in the love of truth and right,

            Ring in the common love of good.

 

            Ring out old shapes of foul disease;

            Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

            Ring out the thousand wars of old,

            Ring in the thousand years of peace.

 

According to a number of intelligent, wise, noble and sagacious thinkers --- war is horrible, vulgar, barbaric, sinful, wicked, vicious, ruinous, and hateful to God.

 

            The English prolific writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946) believed ----Militarism and warfare are childish things, if they are not more horrible than anything childish can be. They must become things of the past.

 

            To conclude, here is a famous quote: The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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G.R.Kanwal

8^th May 2025