<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">An Ambulance Driver's Prayer</h1><p class="byline"> LIEUT. CHAPLAIN THOMAS F. COAKLEY <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN The Stars And Stripes, A.E.F., France</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'MID blinding rain this inky night, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Loud bursting shells each foot of road, </p><p class="line">Thy Light, O Christ, will guide me right,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To save this gasping, dying load.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Their shattered limbs have followed Thee;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Their wounded hands have done Thy work. </p><p class="line">They bled, O Lord, to make men free;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They fought the fight--they did not shirk. </p></div></body></html> · Great War