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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Women writers on peace and war
Margaret Sackville: Selections on peace and war
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Margaret Sackville
Quo Vaditis?
“Where do ye go
Pale line of broken men?” –
We only know to die. Could we die twice, we’d die again.
“Wherefore?” – The call
Of a strange voice – was it of death or birth? –
Came to us all,
To all of us, the men of all the earth.
“And to what end?”
We ask not, but we see
The self-same light which kindles in our friend
Shine from the faces of our enemy.
“Same light, same doom!
And to what purpose?” – Deep
We lie in the same womb,
The slain, the slain together in one sleep.
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