Christoph August Tiedge: Give to earth the light of peaceful day

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war ==== Christoph August TiedgeFrom Elegie auf dem Schaltfelde bei KunersdorfTranslated by T. Holmes Oh, sight of horror! mighty prince, come, see,And o’er this awful heap of mouldering claySwear to thy folk a gentler lord to be,And give to earth the […]

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