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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Milton: Men levy cruel wars, wasting the earth, each other to destroy
Milton: Without ambition, war, or violence
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John Milton
From Sonnet 15
For what can war but endless war still breed?
Till Truth and Right from Violence be freed,
And Public Faith clear’d from the shameful brand
Of Public Fraud. In vain doth Valour bleed
While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
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