<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Faith</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I HAVE leaned on God</p><p class="line">And have been comforted by Him :</p><p class="line">My fears have been allayed ;</p><p class="line">My terror of Death has been forgotten ;</p><p class="line">My frightened heart</p><p class="line">Has ceased its knocking ;</p><p class="line">And my pulse has steadied,</p><p class="line">And my resolution cleared and steeled.</p><p class="line">I have placed my life in His hands</p><p class="line">To take or leave,</p><p class="line">To break or fracture--</p><p class="line">As a lover gives her all,</p><p class="line">Her body and her soul,</p><p class="line">Unto the man she loves,</p><p class="line">So I have given my all to God,</p><p class="line">Surrendered to His Will</p><p class="line">In absolute submission :</p><p class="line">And in the hour of battle I am unafraid,</p><p class="line">And I can put my finger to my nose at Death,</p><p class="line">For I am not my own, but God's.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">If He should will it,</p><p class="line">He will put a bullet thro' my head ;</p><p class="line">Or tear my limbs asunder with a shell;</p><p class="line">Or glean my entrails out;</p><p class="line">Or make me foam and choke with gas:</p><p class="line">And 'twill be well.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But, if He will it,</p><p class="line">He will turn the bullets in their flight;</p><p class="line">Will make a stoppage in a gun ;</p><p class="line">Or make a gunner's hand to tremble,</p><p class="line">That his aim be false--</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And winds of bullets will cool my cheeks,</p><p class="line">And shrapnel fall like blossoms on my head !</p></div></body></html> · Great War