The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
THE DIVINE RIGHT TO RULEs
(By j. NJ. Shepherd.)
d35 Morris Avenue.

Lord art Thou not from everlasting
The srsat Eternal eaSsethe first Great ,3n
And order brought and beauty out Of chaos
Nor help obtained word of others sought.
s OF those who might Thy glory late dispute
Thou that cbanc'd not ought to rivals rare
70 eer disturb Thy undivided power;
since in Thy image lordly didst make;
TO follow in n Thy steps and cen al, retake
Right Of. Kings give obvious proof
,Thou lsnewest, not from conflict. from fact,
MhsH r. Gpen the peaeefui
One whom Thou gd rqG reb
When A6ais and an the qGhOrs the 5ogS
And nightly prevailed: vast there place
Celestial for these Thy vaunted foes;
But from the city whose gates are set with pearl
With his confederates. down to this world
'NIong good and evil here. for time disposed.
Nor didst Thou propose nor cen instigate.
should be a creature of mere fate
When Thou didst give full sway and artfulness
To this Archfiend of all Thy holiness
And bound his power only by Thy own;
And madst him prince OF all the earth ana air
And, of old. snce-and everywhere-,
The more by works than by inheritance
Placed before man, his destiny to mould.
Wheer good or bad his motives to control
For though Thou dost lift up whomso, Thou will.
And curse, in turn Thy purpose to fulfill
to hs Good 10 OF or
such o justify Thy sovereign ways
And name Cyrus him ar hour,
And Belsha2zar, the great Caldean King.
And glory to their proves, strangely bring;
And Moses David Saul and Solomon.
Who swayed scepter and held down throne.
Didst give ilustrious reign among Thy own
Until last, Long Prefigured came,
To justify the of God to men,
And, Lord may it truth. be said
the righteous blood unhoy shed,
From Abel to the Cross, by Him was laid,
His peoples door?-The charge He made,
Who asks if faith shall live till His return?
For what more to extort homage of men.
EpiDhaneS. iluStriOuS
Or Alexander the great Macedon,
Or Herod, Nero, Docletian-
Or more of evil augury eer presage?
And what the holy vars and crusades more,
Than honors seek add, earthly store,
estates, fore'er exempt by law,
AS rigorous in the Dark Ages.
In nineteen hundred. A D.. what can be done
To bring abiding peace-good will to
And help this promised contamination
More than our sires in ages past and gone
May ourselves with deep chagrin?
what less of Caesar-Napoleon-
thatsof hate throughout the Old World
With dynamite deep laid in submarines,
wires ivened by 'lectric machines,
And ponderous warships-numbers unknown?
aircrafts and deep trenches tell,
And asphyxiation surcharged with fumes of hell
speak the Iegions who loyal fell.
By these engines of pandemonum.
And shall answer to all this distress
Be untold millions for preparedness
For selfish rule thus deity change plan,
And show inhumanity man.
In disregard of peace-loving world?
AS if to justify all wonted crime,
To come power down through all hoary time
And stand apart to the manor born
OF greater glory be thus early shorn-
Long live THE Stars to rule DER every land,
With moral sway and prayers uplifted
For Christian precepts to forever stand
Before world engulfd in wretchedness.