Three California Writers:

My Prayer
by Alfred C. Gillis

God pity us all, for our hands are red,

With the wars we’ve made, the blood we’ve shed,

As we battle to death, for greed and gain,

Red are our hands, with the thousands slain.

Redeem us from our wild passion’s flame,

The consuming fire of our hate and shame.

And lead us from the blood-stained way,

O, teach our hardened hearts to pray,

The Angels of God, o’er a world proclaim,

“Peace on earth, good will to men.”