---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Barker, F. E.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 8
published: 1915-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'F. E. Barker, "Send Peace Again: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 8 (June 1915): 728.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1808unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1808unse
start_page: 728
end_page: 728
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1808unse
  publication_year: 1915
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Send Peace Again: A Poem

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Send Peace Again
             O Twentieth Century! Thou so young,
             Whose glorious advent late was sung,
             Midst all the charms that could array
             The world for progress and fair-play.
             When peace to men was so endeared
             A beauteous temple quick they reared
             To Universal Peace, and earth
             Seemed all to sense its deepest worth
             Must we, while still thou'rt in thy teens
             Rouse quickly from those peaceful scenes,
             And pray to God to send again,
             "Peace on earth, good will to men?"

             O cruel monster, wicked War!
             Thy craft that, like the eagles, soar
             The upper strata of the air,
             And kill and spy with awful glare;
             Those stealthy craft that plow the main
             'Neath fog and foam and hurricane,
             And rise, and strike, and thrust below
             The staunchest ships of every foe;
             And all thy weapons, most refined
                              —
             In dealing death, how they remind
             That God we pray to send again,
             "Peace on earth, good will to men."

             Majestic Freedom!    Rise   — protest
             When Civilization's mightiest, best,
              In thy loved name, with carnage strew
             The fairest lands man ever knew,
             Who mock fair Peace, midst tyrants' sneers,
             And deluge all in blood or tears;
             Rebuke dire War, and justice claim;
              Direct proud man, in Mercy's name,
             To work for right, for peace, for God;
             Hold brothers true, at home — abroad,
             And pray the Lord to send again,
              "Peace on earth, good will to men."
                                                     F. E. Barker.