Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty hand

Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty hand. John Oxenham* (1852-1941). Written in 1914, and published in ‘All’s Well!’ some helpful verse for these dark days of war (1915), one of Oxenham’s books of patriotic and morale-raising verse during the first World War, 1914-1918. It was entitled ‘For the men at the front’. It had six 6-line stanzas, of which four were normally printed. These were: Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty handDominion holds on sea and land,In Peace and War Thy Will we seeShaping the larger liberty,  Nations may rise and nations fall,  Thy Changeless Purpose rules them all. For those who weak and broken lie,In weariness and agony -Great Healer, to their beds of painCome, touch, and...