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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 9. August 10th 1949

Ordinis Tranquilities

Ordinis Tranquilities

Take comfort, heart! Peace knows her own and they
Know her. She needs not the blatant blabber;
He, who in his act makes peace, passivity,
And holds no friend, nor love, nor even
Peace itself, as dear enough to die for;
Nor he, who sleeps his soon-to-be-bloodied sword,
But bums the hearts of men to bitter ash
in strife's fierce fire and [unclear: holoiaust] of hate.

Fear nothing, heart! Confusion is self confounded.
Peace needs no advocate. Her voice is thine;
Thy dearest yearnings speak her very soul.
Her nature still is sweet tranquility;
Her home, the heart self-chastened now at rest
Where justice sits, a monarch absolute,
And rules each least and greatest want and wish;
The right of that true man who makes his blade
Fair pledge of peace, his battlecry safeguard
And herald of tomorrow. He stands fast
To seize upon the wild and fearful future
And steadfast hold it firm in faith,
His lovely hope,
The [unclear: nursling-heir] of all his own courageous soul.

R. H. Donovan.