<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Mediation in War-Time</h1><p class="inline-note" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">(After St. Anselm.)</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">If</span> Thou, Lord God, willest to judge</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">This Thy most piteous clay,</p><p class="line">Which to save, Christ did not grudge</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">His red dying I should say:</p><p class="line">"Now I interpose His death</p><p class="line">'Twixt these children and Thy wrath."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Then if Thou should'st say, "Their shame</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Is as scarlet in Mine eyes,"</p><p class="line">I should ask, "Who bare the blame?</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Look on Thy Son's sacrifice!</p><p class="line">His dear Blood is far more bright</p><p class="line">That shall wash the scarlet white."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Still if Thou Thy frown must keep</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And Thine eyes Thou dost avert</p><p class="line">(Ah! dear Shepherd of the Sheep)</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I will say, "Who took the hurt?</p><p class="line">I present Christ's death and pain</p><p class="line">'Twixt Thine anger and these slain."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Dear, they die in millions</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For a quarrel not their own;</p><p class="line">Look to this poor flock, Thy Son's,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Harried all and overthrown.</p><p class="line">See, I lay Christ's Cross between</p><p class="line">Dear, Thy justice and their sin.</p></div><p class="byline">KATHERINE TYNAN.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War