Page:Fifes and Drums, Poems of America at War, Vigilantes, 1917.djvu/66

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FIFES AND DRUMS


Patient for long our lothful deed,
    For the just in doubt must grope.
But with a foe at last arrayed
    Against the whole world's right,
You, O soul of the universe,
    Your very self must fight.
You yourself; so but one prayer
    Need we to lift—but one,
That by our battle shall all war
    Be utterly undone.

Cale Young Rice.