A PRAYER FOR OUR BOYS RETURNING

By Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

God, bring them back just as they went away;

A little wiser, maybe, but unchanged

In all the vital things — let them today

Take up the lives that war has disarranged.

Let them renew the youth they laid aside

To fight their battles in the world of men,

God, bring to life their little dreams that died,

And build their altars new again, and then —