America and the World War - Theodore Roosevelt

AMERICA
AND
THE WORLD WAR

BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1915

PRAYER FOR PEACE

Now these were visions in the night of war:

I prayed for peace; God, answering my prayer,
Sent down a grievous plague on humankind,
A black and tumorous plague that softly slew
Till nations and their armies were no more—
And there was perfect peace ...
But I awoke, wroth with high God and prayer.