Father of the thunder,
Flinger of the flame,
Searing stars asunder,
_Hallowed be Thy Name!_
By the sweet-sung quiring
Sister bullets hum,
By our fiercest firing,
_May Thy Kingdom come!_
By Thy strong apostle
Of the Maxim gun,
By his pentecostal
Flame, _Thy Will be done!_
Give us, Lord, good feeding
To Thy battles sped--
Flesh, white grained and bleeding,
_Give for daily bread!_
_Frances Cornford_
The daughter of Francis Darwin, third son of Charles Darwin, Mrs.
Frances Macdonald Cornford, whose husband is a Fellow and Lecturer of
Trinity College, was born in 1886. She has published three volumes of
unaffected lyrical verse, the most recent of which, _Spring Morning_,
was brought out by The Poetry Bookshop in 1915.