Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace!

Lord Byron
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
“The Bride of Abydos,” canto 2, st. 20 (1813)
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Adaptation from Tacitus' Agricola.

 
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