Cost of War

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COST OF WAR, BY HENRY RICHARD.

Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud. I will build a schoolhouse on every hill-side, and in every valley over the whole earth; I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every state, and fill it with able professors; I will crown every hill with a place of worship, consecrated to the promulga-

tion of the gospel of peace; I will support in every pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another around the earth's wide circumference; and the voice of prayer, and the song of praise, should ascend like a uni- versal holocaust to heaven.

[The above awakened the slumbering muse of one of Zion's old poets, the author of that splendid heroic lyric, O Say, What is Truth? for with the above he sent us the following verses on War: —Editors.]