<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Litany</h1><p class="byline"> ALLENE GREGORY <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps"> IN Harriet Monroe's Poetry Magazine</span><br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> Permission to reproduce in this book</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Saint Genevieve, whose sleepless watch </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:2%">Saved threatened France of old.</p><p class="line">Above the ship that carries him </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:2%">Your sacred vigil hold.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Where all the fair green fields you loved </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:2%">Are scarred with bursting shell,</p><p class="line">Joan, the Maid who fought for France--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:2%">Oh, guard your young knight well.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But if by sea or if by land </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:2%">God set death in his way--</p><p class="line">Then, Mother of the Sacrificed, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:2%">Teach me what prayer to pray!</p></div></body></html> · Great War