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    'All's Well!'
    'All's Well!'
    'All's Well!'
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    'All's Well!'

    By John Oxenham

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    The following book is a collection of poems inspired by World War I, authored by William Arthur Dunkerley, writing under his pseudonym John Oxenham. Featured titles include 'For the Men at the Front', 'The Cross Still Stands!', 'To You Who Have Lost', and 'The Alabaster Box'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 18, 2019
    ISBN4064066161071
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      'All's Well!' - John Oxenham

      John Oxenham

      'All's Well!'

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066161071

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD

      PART ONE: ALL'S WELL!

      WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT?

      FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT

      IN TIME OF NEED

      CHRIST'S ALL!

      THE CROSS STILL STANDS!

      WHERE ARE YOU SLEEPING TO-NIGHT, MY LAD?

      BE QUIET!

      TO YOU WHO HAVE LOST

      LORD, SAVE THEIR SOULS ALIVE!

      THE ALABASTER BOX

      WHITE BROTHER

      A LITTLE TE DEUM FOR THESE TIMES

      THY WILL BE DONE!

      DIES IRAE—DIES PACIS

      JUDGMENT DAY

      THE HIGH THINGS

      THE EMPTY CHAIR

      ROAD-MATES

      ALPHA—OMEGA

      HAIL!—AND FAREWELL!

      A SILENT TE DEUM

      THE NAMELESS GRAVES

      BLINDED!

      SAID THE WOUNDED ONE:—

      OUR SHARE

      POLICEMAN X

      EPILOGUE, 1914

      WHEN HE TRIES THE HEARTS OF MEN

      POISON-SEEDS

      THE WAR-MAKERS

      IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?

      GOD'S HANDWRITING

      PART TWO: THE KING'S HIGH WAY

      THE KING'S HIGH WAY

      THE WAYS

      AD FINEM

      EVENING BRINGS US HOME

      THE REAPER

      NO MAN GOETH ALONE

      ROSEMARY

      EASTER SUNDAY, 1916

      THE CHILD OF THE MAID

      WASTED?

      SHORTENED LIVES

      LAGGARD SPRING

      LONELY BROTHER

      COMFORT YE!

      S. ELIZABETH'S LEPER

      VOX CLAMANTIS

      FLORA'S BIT

      RED BREAST

      OUR HEARTS FOR YOU

      THE BURDENED ASS

      WINNERS OR LOSERS?

      CHRIST AT THE BAR

      MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?

      A TELEPHONE MESSAGE. (TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN)

      THE STARS' ACCUSAL

      NO PEACE BUT A RIGHT PEACE

      IN CHURCH. 1916

      TE DEUM

      THROUGH ME ONLY

      PRINCE OF PEACE

      THE WINNOWING

      TO THIS END

      FOREWORD

      Table of Contents

      For those who were chiefly in my heart when these verses came to me from time to time—our men and boys at the Front, and those they leave behind them in grievous sorrow and anxiety at home—my little message is that, so far as they are concerned—ALL'S WELL!

      Those who have so nobly responded to the Call, and those who, with quiet faces and breaking hearts, have so bravely bidden them God speed!—with these, All is truly Well, for they are equally giving their best to what, in this case, we most of us devoutly believe to be the service of God and humanity.

      War is red horror. But, better war than the utter crushing-out of liberty and civilisation under the heel of Prussian or any other militarism.

      Germany has avowedly outmarched Christianity and left it in the rear, along with its outclassed guns and higher ideals of, say, 1870, its honour, its humanity, and all the other lumber, useless to an absolutely materialistic people whose only object is to win the world even at the price of its soul.

      The world is witnessing with abhorrence the results, and, we may surely hope, learning therefrom The Final Lesson for its own future guidance.

      The war-cloud still hangs over us—as I write, but, grim as it is, there are not lacking gleams of its silver linings. If war brings out the very worst in human nature it offers opportunity also for the display of the very best. And, thank God, proofs of this are not wanting among us, and it is better to let one's thought range the light rather than the darkness.

      What the future holds for us no man may safely say. Mighty changes without a doubt. May they all be for the better! But if that is to be it must be the work of every one amongst us. In this, as in everything else, each one of us helps or hinders, makes or mars.

      If, in some of these verses, I have endeavoured to strike a note of warning, it is because the times, and the times that are coming, call for it. May it be heeded!

      That the end of the present world-strife must and will mark also the end of the most monstrous tyranny and the most hideous conception of Kultur the world has ever seen, no man for one moment doubts.

      But that is not an end but a beginning. Unless on the ashes of the past we build to nobler purpose, all our gallant dead will have been thrown away, all this gigantic effort, with all its inevitable horror and loss, will have been in vain.

      It rests with each one among us to say that that shall not be,—that the future shall repair the past,—that out of this holocaust of death shall come new life.

      It behoves every one of us, each in his and her own sphere, and each in his and her own way, to strive with heart and soul for that mighty end.

      JOHN OXENHAM.

      PART ONE: ALL'S WELL!

      GOD IS WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT? FOR

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