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Excerpt from Poetry of Empire: Nineteen Centuries of British History
And the cry of the two hosts went up through the higher air to the splendour of Zeus. So wrote Homer of the glorious warfare by the Scamander.; and it is often the curse of war more than the blessing of peace that lifts the commonplace to the atmosphere of the sublime.
Warfare between Roman and Briton, between Celt and Saxon, Englishman and Scot, Irishman and English man, bitter civil warfare, - all these have helped to make our nation what it is. The story of a nation is always a story of bloodshed; many a time and oft of blood that has been wrongfully and wastefully shed. In times of peace national growth continues - as grows a coral reef - quietly, persistently; but it is the God of Battles who moulds peoples, and they are not days of prosperous commercialism, but days of storm and stress, that bring out What is best in the children of men. The Poetry of the British Empire has many a gallant tale to tell of fights by land and by sea, for without much fighting, fighting not only with men, but with the elements, with the very forces of Nature, there can be no Empire making.
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