 Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...  The Quarterly Review - Page 413edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...understood Of an English city never built by hands Which love of England prompted and made good.' 2 K 2 The spirit of these forgotten English peasant soldiers...with His hour,' — and the last line of the fifth — ' 111 hearts at peace, under an English heaven ' — the whole splendour and tenderness of English... | |
 | American essays - 1916 - 986 pages
...reborn out of the experience of the present war and at the cost of his life, has the right to be heard. Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping. With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1915 - 346 pages
...Did I wake or sleep ? Charles Hanson Toivne [17] POETRY: A Magazine of Verse NINETEEN-FOURTEEN PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping ! With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1915 - 380 pages
...weep . . . Was it a vision ? — Did I wake or sleep ? Charles Hanson Towne NINETEEN-FOURTEEN PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping ! With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
 | American literature - 1915 - 796 pages
...And laughter learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - English poetry - 1915 - 192 pages
...falling light, and, white with dew, Whisper, and weep; and creep to you. Good sleep to you! 1914 I. Peace Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - English poetry - 1915 - 76 pages
...AND GABRIEL 52 THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH 55 GRANTCHESTER THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER 59 1914 I. PEACE Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
 | Literature - 1916 - 884 pages
...this privileged state — the state of being allowed to offer himself absolutely to his country—he attains to, and expresses in words that seem to shine,...hearts at peace, under an English heaven — the whole splendor and tenderness of English patriotism lies, set forth with the assurance of an intensely personal... | |
 | Edward Eyre Hunt - Belgium - 1916 - 426 pages
...battle, in the ^Egean. I have wondered since if he was then composing the sonnet he called " Peace "-1 " Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, 1 This sonnet is one of five which originally appeared... | |
 | William Jewett Tucker - Education, Higher - 1916 - 240 pages
...out of the experience of the present war and at the cost of his life, has the right to be heard. " Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,... | |
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