Ernest Crosby

First Edition - inscribed by Crosby to Courtenay Lemon

Henry S. Salt - p205 SEVENTY YEARS AMONG SAVAGES

It is strange that his writings, especially the volume
entitled Swords and Plowshares, should be almost
unknown to English democrats, for they include many
poems which touch a very high standard of artistic
excellence, and a few that are gems of verse. " The
Tyrant's Song," for instance, expresses in a few lines
the strength of the Non-Resistant, and of the con-
scientious objector to military service (" the man with
folded arms ") ; yet during all the long controversy
on that subject I never once saw it quoted or men-
tioned.… (mehr)