God's New Year's Gift
What shall the coming year bring forth, O Lord, who rulest the land? For the navies of the sea and air Are but stubble in Thy hand. The battalions in the field go forth; They arm in mighty line; Do they kneel to know Thy holy will? Have they asked from Thee a sign? The kings invoke Thy holy name, In their carnage and their strife; But the purple gift it was Thine to give Recks not of pity nor life: For they're drunk with the wine of lustful power, And seared with the sins of earth; And their prayers and preachments now mock Thy name, And make of Thy laws but mirth. January 1, 1916. For Duncan Campbell Scott.
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