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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
O Lord our...
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded . . .
Source: The aged stranger in The War Prayer, dictated 1904--5; published in Complete Essays, ed. Charles Neider, 1963.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.