Bronze (Johnson)/Peace

by Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson

PEACE

Peace on a thousand hills and dales,
 Peace in the hearts of men
While kindliness reclaims the soil
 Where bitterness has been.

The night of strife is drifting past,
 The storm of shell has ceased,
Disrupted is the cordon fell,
 Sweet charity released.

Forth from the shadow, swift we come
 Wrought in the flame 'together,
All men as one beneath the sun
 In brotherhood forever.