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TO OUR PRESIDENT - ZaunköniG - 04.07.2007 TO OUR PRESIDENT HOPE of the Nations, lift thy stricken heart. Thyself art Sorrow, and to thee the cry Of battle-anguish comes more piercingly Than even in those months of sneer and smart, When thou so steadfastly didst bear thy part, True Champion of Peace. And now, when high The war-storm rages, when horne's darlings die By mangled thousands, lift thy stricken heart For a white shield of mercy, torch that throws Its reconciling gleam across the seas. O thou in love and grief pre-eminent, Divine shall be thy comfort to appease These bleeding Christian armies, sudden foes That slaughter in a fierce astonishment. |