Chapter 115 THEOLOGY IN EXTREMIS

Oft in the pleasant summer years,

Reading the tales of days bygone,

I have mused on the story of human tears,

All that man unto man has done,

Massacre, torture, and black despair;

Reading it all in my easy-chair.

Passionate prayer for a minute's life;

Tortured crying for death as rest;

Husband pleading for child or wife,