<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341790" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Prayer in Time of War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The war will change many things in art and life, and among them, it is to be hoped, many of our own ideas as to what is, and what is not, &quot;intellectual.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea, <br>Whose footsteps are not known, <br>To-night a world that turned from Thee <br>Is waiting -- at Thy Throne. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The towering Babels that we raised <br>Where scoffing sophists brawl, <br>The little Antichrists we praised -- <br>The night is on them all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fool hath said . . . The fool hath said . .. <br>And we, who deemed him wise, <br>We who believed that Thou wast dead, <br>How should we seek Thine eyes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How should we seek to Thee for power <br>Who scorned Thee yesterday? <br>How should we kneel, in this dread hour? <br>Lord, teach us how to pray! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grant us the single heart, once more, <br>That mocks no sacred thing, <br>The Sword of Truth our fathers wore <br>When Thou wast Lord and King. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let darkness unto darkness tell <br>Our deep unspoken prayer, <br>For, while our souls in darkness dwell, <br>We know that Thou art there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341790" data-title="A Prayer in Time of War de Alfred Noyes" data-description="The war will change many things in art and life, and among them, it is to be hoped, many of our own ideas as to what is, and what is not, &quot;intellectual.&quot; Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea, Whose footsteps are not known, To-night a..."></div> </div> </div>

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