Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen, <br />Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart), <br />Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen. <br /> <br />Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone, <br />Though your voice may seem as a dove’s in this howling flood, <br />It is heard to-night by every senate and throne. <br /> <br />Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men <br />Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth, <br />Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.<br /><br />Vachel Lindsay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speak-now-for-peace/
