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Will it, and War passes among profane follies, like the ordeal of burning ploughshares.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Will it, and War passes among profane follies, like the ordeal of burning ploughshares.”
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Sumner uses metaphor to illustrate the fading of war.
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