PEACE

NOW GOD BE THANKED, WHO MEASURED US WITH HIS HOUR
AND CAUGHT OUR YOUTH AND WAKENED US FROM SLEEPING
WITH HAND MADE SURE, CLEAR EYE AND SHARPENED POWERS
TO TURN AS SWIMMERS INTO CLEANNESS LEAPING
SAD OF A WORLD GROWN COLD AND OLD AND WEARY
LEAVE THOSE SICK HEARTS THAT HONOUR COULD NOT MOVE
AND HALF MEN AND THEIR DIRTY SONGS AND DREARY
ALL THE LITTLE EMPTINESS OF LOVE

OH WE WHO HAVE KNOWN SHAME HAVE FOUND RELEASE THERE
WHERE THERES NO ILL, NO GRIEF, BUT PEACE FOREVER MENDING