<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head"> Postlude: From America.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">LORD God, we pray for peace! We lift our plea</p><p class="line">That to these shores the red tide shall not roll.</p><p class="line">Yet first we ask this greater boon of Thee-</p><p class="line">This greater boon, still dearer to our soul:</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">That peace shall not be ours if peace be base;</p><p class="line">That ease shall not be ours if ease be shame;</p><p class="line">That Thou wilt teach us, if we must, to face</p><p class="line">The wrath and wrack, the fury and the flame.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Point us the way of service, mighty Lord!</p><p class="line">Help us to see the high thing we must do;</p><p class="line">And if, to serve, we must unsheathe the sword,</p><p class="line">Nerve heart and arm to see the dread taskthrough.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Dear God, we pray for peace; but first we pray</p><p class="line">That this our country, loved by us so well,</p><p class="line">Shall not from Duty turn her face away-</p><p class="line">Shall notlose hope of Heaven for fear of Hell.</p></div><p class="byline">H. S.</p>(The<em>Spectator</em>, June 19th, 1915.)</body></html> · Great War