ST. MATTHEW V. 9. Joanna Baillie Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL. 1840 pp. 390-391.

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ST. MATTHEW V. 9. " BLESSED are the peace-makers , for they God's children shall be called ! " — so spake The Prince of Peace , in mortal clay , Who veiled his glory , for our sake . The stormy passions of the mind , The boastful tongue and brow of pride , Their soothing counsels , wise and kind Make to a gentle calm subside . That eye upon the ground is cast , Which glanced with restless angry glare , That breast to hostile breast is prest , Which thought to place a scorpion there . Contentious tribes upon the ground Cast bow and spear at their charmed voice , And , linked in many a friendly round , Will o'er the pledge of peace rejoice . Then flourish fields and gardens gay , Where leaders charged with martial train ; And Infants 'mid the herbage play , Where lately lay the ghastly slain . Blest are the peace-makers ! for they To God's blest family belong ; Honoured in this our earthly lay , And in a sweeter , loftier song .