HYMN OF PEACE.

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13940, 19 July 1919, Page 5 (Supplement)

HYMN OF PEACE.

The following verses, originally painted iv the "Daily Mail" on "• Armistice Day, were sung *s * Hymn of Thaioikjßgivirig at many services <» Thanksgiving Sunday. They go 'wiell to the tune of No 322 Hymn* Ancient .. and Modernr—"Arid now, O Father, mindful of ttho Ixwei." ' ■ ; Our enemies have fallevL and the sword Of lustl and ityraainy is bettitfen, down. Joyful', the naitioais shout *ith oli? \ acoarA, ■ . And. eiagpr liaanda emlfcwine tto© victbcxr'a aroiwin. Lord, gtrtunlti tbc^b in .thishouf we nwy ■ be eittill " . In etverythMig obodienib to Thy will. -. Tlhio night -wias long and dark, .arid, haird the'way, ,Bu)fa dyer *o ' the" distanib goal wft „-' pressed. ' '■ , ';: Weary .and far.'iisb, twto stricken in the j fray, / , . . But nrner 1 yet by;arfe.vieni fe»«» di*' tirteSßed.' ' .• • ' "■ '■ We kep* our Iwing faith, umdiinimed./. and bright, _ : la Thteß. oiur gioa-ious Captein in. the . fight. Thou glares* vis *mg heart, one mind, one soul ' . ■ To Tolattila noibly in a. Tiiablie oause.., To keep the very heaiiti of freedom; ■ - whole And Stall uphold the high acd sacred. ' laiws / ■ • Of justace and. of righlb om main.y a field, , ' Trustlingl mi The© Who werte ouit sword / amd .shield. Gram* us tot-day- a spiirit oalm and. sitroing, Thait in our hour of victory'we m^y ,' . claim, Who spenlb our deonieisit blood *o right th© wrong, A tritiacniph oiver every, selfeli aim. Lord God'of Hosts, that, bidst the. oonAidt cease. ■ , Graaiifc iusi thait. \^e bo worthy of Tliy •, • jpeac©! —Touchstoine.. ■