Religion

The Second Coming

by Norman Gale 1862–1942

From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Stevenson (1912)

Religion

The Saviour came. With trembling lips
He counted Europe's battleships.
"Yet millions lack their daily bread.
So much for Calvary!" He said.

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