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The Peace Angel

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Angel of Peace, the hounds of war,     Unleashed, are all abroad,     And war's foul trade again is made          Man's leading aim in life.     Blood dyes the billow and the sod;          The very winds are rife     With tales of slaughter.    Angel, pray,     What can we do or think or say     In times like these?         'Child, think of God!'     'Before this little speck in space     Called Earth with light was shod,     Great chains and tiers of splendid spheres          Were fashioned by His hand.     Be thine the part to love and laud,          Nor seek to understand.     Go lift thine eyes from death-charged guns     To one who made a billion suns;     And trust and wait.         Child, dwell on God!'

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