“Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into
battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth
from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord
our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their
patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks
of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble
homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their
unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out
roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes
of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun
flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn
with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it —
For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their
lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water
their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their
wounded feet!
We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and
Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset
and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
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