Achille Delaroche: At thy feet the tribes will lay down the sacrilege of their homicidal swords, O Seer!

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Achille DelarocheThe Conquering DreamTranslated by Stuart Merrill The sinister thunder of war-horns crashes in the bloody West. Under the livid West the lawless dances circle around the swords rusted with ruddy clots. The thatched huts, the granite ramparts, the […]