Peace poem

by Julia Ward Howe. Poetry and prose. Poem in seven stanzas entitled: The message of peace, with preliminary information at head of text. "And now at eighty years of age Mrs. Howe ... has spoken publicly in Boston ... and now addresses a still larger audience in this new poem written for The Sunday school times." Variant of BAL 9502. Date suggested because Julia Ward Howe was eighty in 1899. First line of poem: Bid the din of battle cease!