Lines on War

I MURDER hate, by field or flood,
Tho' glory's name may screen us;
In wars at hame I'll spend my blood,
Life-giving wars of Venus.
The deities that I adore,

Are social peace and plenty;
I'm better pleas'd to make one more,
Than be the death o' twenty.

- Robert Burns

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