Our earth we now lament to see

With floods of wickedness o’erflowed,

With violence, wrong, and cruelty,

One wide-extended field of blood,

Where men like fiends each other tear

In all the hellish rage of war.

2 O might the universal Friend

This havoc of his creatures see;

Bid our unnatural discord end,

Declare us reconciled in thee;

Write kindness on our inward parts,

And chase the murderer from our hearts!