StoryTitle("caps", "Peace") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My soul, there is a country", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far beyond the stars,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where stands a wingéd sentry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All skilful in the wars:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, above noise and danger,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sweet Peace sits crown'd with smiles,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And One born in a manger", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Commands the beauteous files.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is thy gracious Friend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And—O my soul, awake!—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did in pure love descend", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To die here for thy sake.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If thou canst get but thither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There grows the flower of Peace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Rose that cannot wither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy fortress, and thy ease.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leave then thy foolish ranges;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For none can thee secure", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But One who never changes—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy God, thy life, thy cure.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Vaughan", "1621–1695") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>