GOD of Peace! before thee, Peaceful, here we kneel, Humbly to implore thee For a nation's weal. Calm her sons' dissensions, Bid their discord cease, End their mad contentions -- Hear us, God of Peace! God of Love! low bending, To thy throne we turn; Let thy rays, descending, Through our island burn. Let no strife divide us, But, from Heaven above, Look on us and guide us -- Hear us, God of Love! God of Battles! aid us; Let no despot's might Trample or degrade us, Seeking this our right! Arm us for the danger; Keep all craven fear To our breasts a stranger -- God of Battles! hear. God of Right! preserve us Just -- as we are strong; Let no passion swerve us To one act of wrong; Let no thought unholy Come our cause to blight; Thus we pray thee, lowly -- Hear us, God of Right! God of Vengeance! smite us With thy shaft sublime, If one bond unite us Forged in fraud or crime! But if, humbly kneeling, We implore thine ear, For our rights appealing -- God of Nations! hear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LONGING FOR HEAVEN by ANNE BRADSTREET AT THE WEDDING MARCH by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 53. WITHOUT HER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ODE TO THE SWALLOW by ANACREON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 20. AL-'ALIM by EDWIN ARNOLD |