Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LET THERE BE NO NEED OF WAR, by CLARA JOHNSTON PIERCE


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LET THERE BE NO NEED OF WAR, by                    
First Line: My son has gentle eyes, and hair blown back
Last Line: My son, -- but let there be no need of war.
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Anti-war Protests


My son has gentle eyes, and hair blown back
As if to better clear the quiet brow
For beauty's contemplation. Bud and bough
Are food to store his mind's deep haversack: --
The moss-cool woods provide his bivouac
And furred and feathered buddies there allow
His kindly nearness as he ponders how
To shield their trusting shyness from attack.

Cleansed my heart of all that rankled there --
The fear, the doubt and hate that heretofore
Have made my soul unfit for answered prayer.
Oh God of Ages, hear me, I implore,
This is not a selfish plea to spare
My son, -- But let there be no need of War.





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