To the World!
I.
To the world! To the world! Let us carol its song,
Let us conquer its grief and the wrath of its wrong,
Till the lilt of its laughter shall sweeten the sod
With the joys of the skies and the gladness of God!
II.
To the world! To the world! Where the gleam hides the gloom
And the lilies of love on the battle-fields bloom,—
Where the light of the longing lies low on the stream,
And the soul seeks the crown of his dream,—of his dream!
III.
To the world! To the world! To the world that we know
With its sunlights of love and [its] shadows of woe,—
To the world lifted up, lifted far to His face,
And the mercy that dwells in His bountiful grace!
IV.
To the world! To the world! It has beautiful years
With the pleasurers of peace and the turmoil of tears,
And wherever the feet wander fainting or far
Every day is a sun, every night is a star!