| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | March 30 | | Guns of Peace | | By Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
| | | | Sunday night, March 30, 1856.—Close of the Crimean War. |
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GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain, | |
| Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far | |
| In the long patience of inglorious war, | |
| Of famine, cold, heat, pestilence and pain,— | |
| All ye whose loss makes up our vigorous gain— | 5 |
| This quiet night, as sounds the cannon’s tongue, | |
| Do ye look down the trembling stars among, | |
| Viewing our peace and war with like disdain? | |
| Or, wiser grown since reaching those new spheres, | |
| Smile ye on those poor bones ye sow’d as seed | 10 |
| For this our harvest, nor regret the deed? | |
| Yet lift one cry with us to Heavenly ears— | |
| “Strike with Thy bolt the next red flag unfurl’d, | |
| And make all wars to cease throughout the world.” | | | |
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