An Ambulance Driver’s Prayer Lieut. Chaplain Thomas F. Coakley
in The Stars and Stripes, A.E.F., France
’Mid blinding rain this inky night,
Loud bursting shells each foot of road,
Thy Light, O Christ, will guide me right,
To save this gasping, dying load.
Their shattered limbs have followed Thee;
Their wounded hands have done Thy work.
They bled, O Lord, to make men free;
They fought the fight—they did not shirk.