Our business in the field of fight
Is not to question, but to prove our might.
C. HOMER-Iliad. Bk. XX. L. 304.
Pope's trans,
So ends the bloody business of the day.
d. HOMER-Odyssey. Bk. XXII. L.516.
Pope's trans.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. e. HOMER-Iliad. Bk. XVIII. L. 388. Bryant's trans. Earth was the meadow, he the mower strong. f. VICTOR HUGO-La Légende des Siècles. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet

Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat;

But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birth

Others more mild,

Retreated in a silent valley, sing

With notes angelical to many a harp

Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle.