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Nathan Haskell Dole: Selections on peace
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
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Nathan Haskell Dole: Selections on peace
Nathan Haskell Dole: Death: War is my Master-stroke since Days of Yore
Nathan Haskell Dole: Here are War’s pomp and circumstance
Nathan Haskell Dole: Peace’s exultation
Nathan Haskell Dole: The Reign of Peace
Nathan Haskell Dole: Thanks offering of the God of Waste and Destruction
Nathan Haskell Dole: The Vision of Peace
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