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PRAYER FOR PEACE, by                    
First Line: Grant us surcease, we pray, from cosmic strife
Last Line: God, give our younger sons no battle-cry!
Subject(s): Peace; Prayer


Grant us surcease, we pray, from cosmic strife,
Let us have quiet for reflective space.
Mankind, now conflict-weary, would replace
All vestiges of grimness which the knife
Of Hate has scarred so deeply, with fresh life --
Would summon plaintive loveliness and grace
And kindlier ways of thinking to a race
Desirous never more to march to fife.

War reaped its harvest. Those whom we held best
Were first to quaff the seething cup and die.
In silence they courageously fared west,
Who loved the radiant earth, the sapphire sky --
Brooke, John McCrea, Joyce Kilmer, and the rest.
God, give our younger sons no battle-cry!





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