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Слушать(AI)Disarmament
One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
We who are great in war be great in peace.
No longer let us plead the cause by might."But from a million British graves took birth A silent voice — the million spake as one —"If ye have righted all the wrongs of earth Lay by the sword! Its work and ours is done."
John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during Worl
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