Armistice Day

Praise God for that hour four years ago

That hour of silence and prayer.

That hour so fraught with hope and thanks

When all before was despair.

That hour when the lives of many were saved

Of our loved ones “over There”.

Oh the awful silence that filled the land

That silence so long delayed.

That silence was holy ah! Yes, it was

Our boys in that silence prayed

They thanked the God who had spared their lives

Whose hand deaths power had stayed.

In all that army of millions of men

Every head in reverence bared

To Him, they had learned to know

When death that awful monster was at their side.

Thank God that the unbelieving soul

In moments like that, believe!

Written by Ida May Schaffer

November 11, 1922

Age of 17