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ONCE more dear friends you meet beneath	A
A clouded sky	B
Not yet the sword has found its sheath	A
And on the sweet spring airs the breath	C
Of war floats by	B
Yet trouble springs not from the ground	D
Nor pain from chance	E
The Eternal order circles round	D
And wave and storm find mete and bound	D
In Providence	F
Full long our feet the flowery ways	G
Of peace have trod	H
Content with creed and garb and phrase	G
A harder path in earlier days	G
Led up to God	H
Too cheaply truths once purchased dear	I
Are made our own	J
Too long the world has smiled to hear	K
Our boast of full corn in the ear	K
By others sown	J
To see us stir the martyr fires	L
Of long ago	M
And wrap our satisfied desires	L
In the singed mantles that our sires	N
Have dropped below	M
But now the cross our worthies bore	O
On us is laid	P
Profession's quiet sleep is o'er	Q
And in the scale of truth once more	O
Our faith is weighed	P
The cry of innocent blood at last	R
Is calling down	S
An answer in the whirlwind blast	R
The thunder and the shadow cast	R
From Heaven's dark frown	S
The land is red with judgments Who	T
Stands guiltless forth	U
Have we been faithful as we knew	T
To God and to our brother true	T
To Heaven and Earth	V
How faint through din of merchandise	W
And count of gain	X
Have seemed to us the captive's cries	W
How far away the tears and sighs	W
Of souls in pain	X
This day the fearful reckoning comes	Y
To each and all	Z
We hear amidst our peaceful homes	A2
The summons of the conscript drums	Y
The bugle's call	Z
Our path is plain the war net draws	B2
Round us in vain	X
While faithful to the Higher Cause	C2
We keep our fealty to the laws	B2
Through patient pain	X
The levelled gun the battle brand	D2
We may not take	E2
But calmly loyal we can stand	D2
And suffer with our suffering land	D2
For conscience' sake	E2
Why ask for ease where all is pain	X
Shall we alone	J
Be left to add our gain to gain	X
When over Armageddon's plain	X
The trump is blown	J
To suffer well is well to serve	F2
Safe in our Lord	G2
The rigid lines of law shall curve	F2
To spare us from our heads shall swerve	F2
Its smiting sword	G2
And light is mingled with the gloom	H2
And joy with grief	I2
Divinest compensations come	J2
Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom	H2
In sweet relief	I2
Thanks for our privilege to bless	K2
By word and deed	L2
The widow in her keen distress	K2
The childless and the fatherless	M2
The hearts that bleed	L2
For fields of duty opening wide	N2
Where all our powers	L
Are tasked the eager steps to guide	N2
Of millions on a path untried	N2
The slave is ours	L
Ours by traditions dear and old	O2
Which make the race	P2
Our wards to cherish and uphold	O2
And cast their freedom in the mould	O2
Of Christian grace	P2
And we may tread the sick bed floors	Q2
Where strong men pine	R2
And down the groaning corridors	L
Pour freely from our liberal stores	Q2
The oil and wine	R2
Who murmurs that in these dark days	G
His lot is cast	R
God's hand within the shadow lays	G
The stones whereon His gates of praise	G
Shall rise at last	R
Turn and o'erturn O outstretched Hand	D2
Nor stint nor stay	S2
The years have never dropped their sand	D2
On mortal issue vast and grand	D2
As ours to day	S2
Already on the sable ground	D
Of man's despair	T2
Is Freedom's glorious picture found	D
With all its dusky hands unbound	D
Upraised in prayer	T2
Oh small shall seem all sacrifice	U2
And pain and loss	V2
When God shall wipe the weeping eyes	W
For suffering give the victor's prize	W
The crown for cross	V2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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