When nations are healed and all warfare is banished

When nations are healed and all warfare is banished,
the hungry are fed and the poor lifted high,
the vision of glory, God's presence among us,
will signify love and all hatred will die.

The river of life will flow on unpolluted,
the language we share will express common wealth,
all greed and all grasping will vanish forever,
instead of for warfare, we'll budget for health.

Verse 3 follows

Tune: ST CATHERINE’S COURT; THE ASH GROVE
Metre: 12.11.12.11

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)

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