What of the World
W
HATof the world if the nations
crumble?
What of the helpless and forlorn
Left to their fate to starve and stumble
Over the earth that greed has torn
Wide with the fangs of hate and fury?
Where is the tongue with power to tell
What the destruction, and where the jury
Wise to ponder these acts of hell?
What will God say through the crashing thunder?
How will he judge mankind at last
After the ruin of earth’s bright wonder,
After his proffered chance is past?
What of the world if the nations fail him?
What if men walk in their own proud might?
O my brothers, bow down and hail him,
And pray that his mercy may stay that night.
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