"When peace like a river"

That old song, a hymn from an older time - a time of simple answers and captioned dreams

Timetables, answers all predetermined - joy's limitations constrained by bonds not easily broken

What author, what troubadour wrote of such peace

Did they know of the coming blaspheming of their words

Did they know old and foolish men - knowing nothing - would lead other fools in a chorus of blindness?

Did they see the darkness in which their tune would be stripped naked of all meaning, barren of any peace