When will you ever, Peace, wilddove, shy wings shut,

You round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?

When, Peace, will you Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite

To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows

Alarm of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord, should leave in lieu

Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,

That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house

He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,

He comes to brood and sit.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89)