Litany

ALLENE GREGORY
IN Harriet Monroe's Poetry Magazine
Permission to reproduce in this book

Saint Genevieve, whose sleepless watch 
Saved threatened France of old.
Above the ship that carries him 
Your sacred vigil hold.

Where all the fair green fields you loved 
Are scarred with bursting shell,
Joan, the Maid who fought for France--
Oh, guard your young knight well.

But if by sea or if by land 
God set death in his way--
Then, Mother of the Sacrificed, 
Teach me what prayer to pray!

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