A Soldier’s Prayer
By Pvt. Harvey T. Johnson
Dear God, I kneel before thee now
To ask one thing of thee:
Preserve my life that I might live
To dedicate my life to thee.
Or grant if I should never see
A home, a wife, a son,
That men will always say of me
His love has fought and won.
(1944)
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