The Army and Navy Hymnal/Secular/Wherever War, with Its Red Woes

by John Huston Finley and Carl Harold Lowden

For other versions of this work, see The Red Cross Spirit Speaks.

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Wherever War, With Its Red Woes

(Red Cross Spirit)

John Finley

C. Harold Lowden, 1880-

1 Wherever war with its red woes, Or flood or fire or famine goes, There, too go I; If earth in any quarter quakes Or pestilence its ravages makes, Thither. I fly.2 I go wherever men may dare, I go whereverwoman's care And Love can live, Wherever strength andskill can bring Surcease to human suffering,Or solace give.3 I am your pennies and your pounds; I am your bodieson their rounds Of pain afar; I am you,doing what you would If you ere only where you could— Your avatar.4 The cross which on my arm I wear, The flag which o'er my breast I bear, Is but the sign Of what you'd sacrifice for him Who suffers on the hellish rim Of war's red line.