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Let Us Have Peace

By Eugene Field

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In maudlin spite let Thracians fight     Above their bowls of liquor;     But such as we, when on a spree,     Should never brawl and bicker!     These angry words and clashing swords     Are quite de trop, I'm thinking;     Brace up, my boys, and hush your noise,     And drown your wrath in drinking.     Aha, 't is fine,--this mellow wine     With which our host would dope us!     Now let us hear what pretty dear     Entangles him of Opus.     I see you blush,--nay, comrades, hush!     Come, friend, though they despise you,     Tell me the name of that fair dame,--     Perchance I may advise you.     O wretched youth! and is it truth     You love that fickle lady?     I, doting dunce, courted her once;     Since when, she's reckoned shady!

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Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an American writer and poet known as the "children's poet." His poems "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "Little Boy Blue" are cherished classics of American children's literature.

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