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“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. 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, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land . . . Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives . . . make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love . . . Amen.”

-Mark Twain, “The War Prayer”

Which of these statements might express Twain’s antiwar message? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY

“the sweet peace of our beloved firesides”

“tear their soldiers to bloody shreds”

“lay waste their humble homes”

“a hurricane of fire”

“little children to wander unfriended”

“their desolated land”