Eight monuments

Eight monuments on the Guilford Green remind us to practice peace.

the war to end all wars?

VII

Before we kill another child
For righteousness’ sake, to serve
some blissful killer’s sacred cause,
some bloody patriot’s anthem
and his flag, let us leave forever
our ancestral lands, our holy books,
our god thoughtified to the mean
of our smallest selves. Let us go
to the graveyard and lie down
forever among the speechless stones.

Wendell Berry
Leavings