I MURDER hate by flood or field, <br />Tho' glory's name may screen us; <br />In wars at home I'll spend my blood— <br />Life-giving wars of Venus. <br />The deities that I adore <br />Are social Peace and Plenty; <br />I'm better pleas'd to make one more, <br />Than be the death of twenty. <br /> <br /> <br />I would not die like Socrates, <br />For all the fuss of Plato; <br />Nor would I with Leonidas, <br />Nor yet would I with Cato: <br />The zealots of the Church and State <br />Shall ne'er my mortal foes be; <br />But let me have bold Zimri's fate, <br />Within the arms of Cozbi!<br /><br />Robert Burns<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-murder-hate/
