<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Four Things I Ask.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Four</span> things, Almighty God, I ask</p><p class="line">For England in her awful task.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The passionate heart of one who fights,</p><p class="line">Compassionate even when she smites.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Set lips, and close, from which shall fall</p><p class="line">Speech, grave and pure, if speech at all.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Hands bloody -- since it must be! -- seen,</p><p class="line">By Thee, indubitably clean.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Eyes, which though dimmed with blood, or tear,</p><p class="line">Or the dark shadow itself, see clear.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Four things I ask: four things and one --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">The mind that was in Christ Thy Son.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">So well equipped shall England stand,</p><p class="line">Arisen again at Heaven's command.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">So view her from Thy seat above,</p><p class="line">God! full of noble wrath -- and love.</p></div><p class="byline">G. H. LEONARD.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War