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THE NEW AGE by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES

First Line: WHEN NAVIES ARE FORGOTTEN
Last Line: IN THE VICTORY WHICH IS PEACE.
Subject(s): PEACE; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
When navies are forgotten
And fleets are useless things,
When the dove shall warm her bosom
Beneath the eagle's wings;

When the memory of battles
At last is strange and old,
When nations have one banner
And creeds have found one fold;

When the Hand that sprinkles midnight
With its dust of powdered suns
Has hushed this tiny tumult
Of sects, and swords, and guns,

Then hate's last note of discord
In all God's world shall cease
In the conquest which is service,
In the victory which is peace.



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