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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Thomas Fuller: When all the world might smile in perfect peace
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Thomas Fuller
From David’s Hainous Sinne
Were there not used in the days of yore
Enough men-murdering engines? But our age
Witty in wickedness must make them more,
By new found plotts mens malice to inrage:
So that fire-spitting canons to the cost
Of Christian blood all valour have ingrost,
Whose finding makes that many a life is lost.
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