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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

by Robert W. Service

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Faith

Since all that is was ever bound to be;
Since grim, eternal laws our Being bind;
And both the riddle and the answer find,
And both the carnage and the calm decree;
Since plain within the Book of Destiny
Is written all the journey of mankind
Inexorably to the end; since blind
And mortal puppets playing parts are we:

Then let’s have faith; good cometh out of ill;
 The power that shaped the strife shall end the strife;
 Then let’s bow down before the Unknown Will;
 Fight on, believing all is well with life;
 Seeing within the worst of War’s red rage
 The gleam, the glory of the Golden Age.

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