Ballads of Battle/Invocation: Night in the Trenches

by Joseph Lee

INVOCATION: NIGHT IN THE TRENCHES

Creator of the stars
Great and Little Bear—
Have us in Thy care.

Thou who set Orion,
Watch and ward to keep—
Guard a soldier's sleep.

Hand that swung the Spheres,
Strawed the Pleiades—
Have pity upon these.

Hand that sways the plough;
Will that stays the Pole—
Sow thy good seed now,
Guide an errant soul.