Song + 

IV + 

The Unreasonableness of Hatred + 

Why all this furious strife? Oh, why + 

With rash and wilful hand provoke death’s destined day? + 

If death ye seek⁠—lo! Death is nigh, + 

Not of their master’s will those coursers swift delay! + 

The wild beasts vent on man their rage, + 

Yet ’gainst their brothers’ lives men point the murderous steel; + 

Unjust and cruel wars they wage, + 

And haste with flying darts the death to meet or deal. + 

No right nor reason can they show; + 

’Tis but because their lands and laws are not the same. + 

Wouldst thou give each his due; then know + 

Thy love the good must have, the bad thy pity claim. + 