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"Thank God for Peace" (sheet music), 1856. 'The poetry by M.J.J; the Music by Frank Mori...I think the sweet spring-time that soon will come, With shine and shade - intensest smiles and tears - Will laugh in joy to many an English home, That hath not known a Spring for two sad years. I think that many little ones there are, Will feel the world grow holier apace, While watching melt in dew the cloud of care, That hath so long o'erhung the mother's face...0 Heaven, so calm! that on pure, peaceful nights, Looked down reproachful with its every star, Wondering, it might be, at the dreadful sights, That did blaspheme God's world i' the name of War,- When shall new health come to this morbid race? When shall these seething, whirling turmoils cease? We wait for the full shining of His grace, And cry in faith and trust, "Thank God for Peace".' From "Illustrated London News", 1856.