Implora Pace.
Up to the silent heaven the cry asccudeth " Bid war and tumult cease ! " Solemnly with the midnight winds it blendeth, "On earth let there be peace ! " Too long have yonder holy moonbeams glistened O'er fields of strife below ; Too long haVe yonder starry watchers listenod To sounds of war and woe. Too long iv waiting at Bethesda's portals The spirit's troubled wing, To heal earth's troubled waters, hapless mortals Have lingered, wearying. Bid that six thousand years of bloody story Suffice life's mighty book ; Unfold one pitying page of peaceful glory, Where seraph eyes may look ! One snowy leaf whereon recorded angel With truth's own ray may write Deeds sympathetic with the great Evangel, All pure and kind and bright. 0 dove of peoce at once iv record olden, Brood o'er the surges' breast j Spread wide thy " silver wings and feathers golden, " Till all be hush'd to rest ! O printless footsteps, once at midnight stealing O'er stormy seas at will, Walk on the billowy waves of human feeling, And bid them " Peace, be still 1 " —Soft F rancißCo New Letter.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1836, 12 April 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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183Implora Pace. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1836, 12 April 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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