<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Not</span> for passion or for power,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Clean of hands, and calm of soul,</p><p class="line">England at this awful hour</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Bids her battle-thunders roll,</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">That crown'd arrogance may quail</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And brute-force be backward hurled --</p><p class="line">Lest the hypocrite prevail,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Lest a lie should win the world;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Lest she see the trustful weak</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Trampled by the perjured strong --</p><p class="line">That her arm may help to wreak</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Justice on red-handed wrong,</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Till the hierophants of fear</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Cease, beneath the darkened sun,</p><p class="line">To boom out in Europe's ear</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The grim gospel of the gun.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">So, to meet yon myriad host</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As we muster, land by land,</p><p class="line">Witness Heaven -- no braggart boast --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That for righteousness we stand!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">In the dread impending hour</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Heedful of that warning word,</p><p class="line">"'Not by might, and not by power --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">By my Spirit,' saith the Lord."</p></div><p class="byline">JAMES RHOADES</p><em>Times, August</em> 21, 1914</body></html> · Great War