“Who can fancy warless men?
Warless? War will die out late then. Will it ever? late or soon?
Can it, till this outworn earth be dead as yon dead world the moon?”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 172

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British poet laureate 1809–1892

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