…He bids us love our enemies,

And live in Christian peace,

‘Tis only he can order wars

and woes that never cease.

Vengeance is mine, I will repay;

Beware! Thou shalt not kill:

Behold the bloody fields of France,

They are God’s holy will….

 

He is the unknown God

Who leads you blindfold down the path

That martyred saints have trod.

That is the gospel of the Christ,

Submit whate’er betides;

You cannot make the wrong world right,

‘Tis God alone decides.

 

O, by thy cross and passion, Lord,

By broken hearts that pant

For comfort and for love of thee,

Deliver us from cant.

 

G.A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), The Unutterable Beauty.