William Mason: Il Pacifico: Joys that peace inspires

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== William MasonIl PacificoWritten on the Conclusion of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle Hence, pestilential Mars,Of sable-vested Night and Chaos bred,On matters formless bed,Mid the harsh din of elemental jars:Hence with thy frantic croud,Wing’d Flight, pale Terror, Discord cloath’d in fire,Precipitate […]

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