My Prayer: A Dunkirk Veteran
1940 

 

Stay with me God, the night is dark, the night is cold,
My little spark of courage dies.
The night is long be with me God and make me strong.
I loved a game, I loved a fight, I hate the dark,
I love the light, I love my child, I love my wife,
I am no coward, I love life,
Life in its changes of mood and shade,
I want to live, I'm not afraid.
But me and mine are hard to part,
Oh unknown God lift up my heart.
You stilled the waters at Dunkirk and saved your servants,
All your work is wonderful.
Dear God you stode before us down that dreaded road
We were alone, hope had fled.
We loved our country and our dead
And could not shame them so we stayed the course.
Dear God that nightmare road and then the sea,
We got there, we were men.
My eyes were blind, my feet were torn, my soul sang like a bird at dawn.
I knew that death was but a door,
I knew what we were fighting for.
Peace for our kids, our brothers freed,
A kinder world, a cleaner breed.
I'm but the son my mother bore, a simple man and nothing more,
But God of gentleness and strength,
Help me when death is near to mock the haggard face of fear
That when I fall if fall I must,
My soul will triumph in the dust.

DUNKIRK 1940 

 

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11/04/2007

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