 Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows ? we are ashes and dust. IX Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 339by University magazine - 1855Full view - About this book
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...See, for instance, Maud: "Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? . . . lust of gain" (1:21, 23); "Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days...hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine" (1:3334); "better, war! loud war by land and by sea, / War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred... | |
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