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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Samuel Rogers: What tho’ the iron school of War erase each milder virtue…
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Samuel Rogers
From The Voyage of Columbus
War and the Great in War let others sing.
Havoc and spoil, and tears and triumphing;
The morning-march that flashes to the sun,
The feast of vultures when the day is done;
And the strange tale of many slain for one!
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