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SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 5, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer
Last Line: Supreme when in all bosoms he be heard.
Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War


I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer.
How many wars have been in my brief years!
All races and all faiths, both hemispheres,
My eyes have seen embattled everywhere
The wide earth through; yet do I not despair
Of peace, that slowly through far ages nears,
Though not to me the golden morn appears;
My faith is perfect in time's issue fair.

For man doth build on an eternal scale,
And his ideals are framed of hope deferred;
The millennium came not; yet Christ did not fail,
Though ever unaccomplished is His word;
Him Prince of Peace, though unenthroned, we hail,
Supreme when in all bosoms He be heard.





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