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Back of each soldier who fights for France, / Ay, back of each woman and man / Who toils and prays through these long tense days, / Is the spirit of Great Joan. / For the love she gave, and the life she gave, / In the eyes of God sufficed / To crown her with light, and power, and might, / That made her second to Christ.
And so in that hour at the Marne she came, / To the seeing eyes of men; / And the blind of view still felt and knew / That her spirit had come again. / And she will come in each crucial hour / And joy shall follow despair, / For Joan sees her France on its knees / And she hears the voice of its prayer.