Parke Farley. If War Is Right. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

If War Is Right

By Parke Farley


IF war is right, then God is might
And every prayer is vain:
Go raze your temples from the hills—
Red death is in the plain.

If war is right, then God is might,	5
And every prayer is vain:
Look not for Christ upon the hills—
He lies among the slain.