Stain Not the Sky + 

Ye gods of battle, lords of fear, + 

Who work your iron will as well + 

As once ye did with sword and spear, + 

With rifled gun and rending shell⁠— + 

Masters of sea and land, forbear + 

The fierce invasion of the inviolate air! + 

With patient daring man hath wrought + 

A hundred years for power to fly; + 

And will you make his winged thought + 

A hovering horror in the sky, + 

Where flocks of human eagles sail, + 

Dropping their bolts of death on hill and dale? + 

Ah no, the sunset is too pure, + 

The dawn too fair, the noon too bright + 

For wings of terror to obscure + 

Their beauty, and betray the night + 

That keeps for man, above his wars, + 

The tranquil vision of untroubled stars. + 

Pass on, pass on, ye lords of fear! + 

Your footsteps in the sea are red, + 

And black on earth your paths appear + 

With ruined homes and heaps of dead. + 

Pass on to end your transient reign, + 

And leave the blue of heaven without a stain. + 

The wrong ye wrought will fall to dust, + 

The right ye shielded will abide; + 

The world at last will learn to trust + 

In law to guard, and love to guide; + 

And Peace of God that answers prayer + 

Will fall like dew from the inviolate air. + 