==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Francis Saltus Saltus: Selections on peace and war ==== Francis Saltus SaltusFrom Life If we lived through long epochs and ages,If we saw but a century of peace,Had we time to calm murmurs and rages,Had we time to make wickedness cease;We might barter our faith to the sages,We might force evil thoughts to decrease. ==== From To J.S. Thebaud, M.D. See the red flashing of the sword and steel,The tramp of glittering armies sent to kill!Hear the wild music of the bugles’ […]
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