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Such is war! O heavens! when will the spiritual Sun arise, And with His beams effulgent, drive away The mists of error that so long have hung Their dark, unnatural drapery o’er the mind, That broods o’er human carnage! when will man Turn from the path of Cain, and learn to see A brother without hating?
Such is war! O heavens! when will the spiritual Sun arise, And with His beams effulgent, drive away The mists of error that so long have hung Their dark, unnatural drapery o’er the mind, That broods o’er human carnage! when will man Turn from the path of Cain, and learn to see A brother without hating?
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Rufus Dawes (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 655 · printed citation: Rufus Dawes · subject: WAR
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