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Too Practical to be thought of.

Let Pasha-rule perish sans pity;
Make Constantinople Free-City;
All Europe supply a police
For preserving the federal peace;
There—and elsewhere, why not? Is this fighting
The sensible way of wrong-righting?
Else, what are these huge armies for?
Are most people thirsty for war?
Ah! Police might we have, and not “Policy,”
And of Statecraft the damnable folly see.