Francis Thompson: Flattering the too-much-pampered Boy of War

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Francis Thompson: Kingly crown and warrior’s crest not worth a blade of grass ==== Francis ThompsonFrom The Nineteenth Century Yet let it grieve, grey Dame,Thy passing spirit, God wot,Thou wast half-hearted, wishing peace, but notThe means of it. The avaricious […]

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