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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. War

Coming

Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872)

WORLD, art thou ’ware of a storm?

Hark to the ominous sound;

How the far-off gales their battle form,

And the great sea-swells feel ground!

It comes, the Typhoon of Death—

Nearer and nearer it comes!

The horizon thunder of cannon-breath

And the roar of angry drums!

Hurtle, Terror sublime!

Swoop o’er the Land to-day—

So the mist of wrong and crime,

The breath of our Evil Time

Be swept, as by fire, away!