Different Genii to Peace

Leigh Hunt

1784 to 1859

Poem Image

O wrapping looks and balmy tongue, 
Sweet as summer air through tree,
Remembered when this age was young, 
Like sights beheld in infancy, 
O Peace, whose very name's a pleasure, 
Reappear, 
To bless us here, 
And light with silken foot upon our leisure!

By the last tear that hangs to-day, 
For thy kiss to clip away; 
By the toil of struggling hearts, 
That rest them from their final parts; 
By hopes that wait in rising lands,
A blessing from thy gentle hands;

By home delights, and spirits free,
And one full sigh of earth and sea,
And victorious Liberty;
Reappear, reappear! 
Earth is worthy to regain thee,
And hopes it may not always pain thee.