<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Vision of Peace</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O, beautiful Vision of Peace,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Beam bright in the eyes of Man!</p><p class="line">The host of the meek shall increase,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Prophets are leading the van.</p><p class="line">Have courage: we see the Morn!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Never fear, tho' the Now be dark!</p><p class="line">Out of Night the Day is born;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Fire shall live from the spark.</p><p class="line">It may take a thousand years</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Ere the Era of Peace hold sway,</p><p class="line">Look back and the Progress cheers</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And a thousand years are a day!</p><p class="line">The World grows -- yet not by chance;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">It follows some marvelous plan;</p><p class="line">Tho' slow to our wish the advance,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">God rules the training of Man.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Nathan Haskell Dole.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> The Christian Register. </p></body></html> · Great War