In the Name of Peace.
Reading edition
By LAVINIA V. WHITNEY.
(After Kipling.)
When the last of the soldiers has fallen, and the cannons lie twisted aside, When the last of all homes has been ruined, and the heart of the youngest girl bride, We shall wake from our terrible madness, and pause for an eon or two, Till the Master of all the good soldiers shall call us to battle anew. Then those that were brave shall be braver—they shall love with a love more fair; They shall hear, o'er a worldwide battlefield, the Voice of their God in the air; They shall have the real saints for their comrades—Magdalene, Peter, and Paul; They shall fight unembittered, and never again shall be weary at all. And only the Master shall praise us, for only the Master shall lead; And no one shall fight for his country, and none for his honor or creed; But each for the Master Who loves him, and Teuton and Briton and all Shall fight, each the cause of the other, for the God of the Love of us All!