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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Exalt the name of Peace and leave those rusty wars that eat the soul
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From The Cry of the Human
The battle hurtles on the plains,
Earth feels new scythes upon her;
We reap our brothers for the wains,
And call the harvest – honour.
Draw face to face, front line to line,
Our image all inherit:
Then kill, curse on, by that same sign,
Clay, clay, – and spirit, spirit.
Be pitiful, O God!
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