For in truth there are two prayers embedded within any prayer for success in war, the spoken and the unspoken. The spoken word is a prayer for victory, but the unspoken prayer is asking for many unforeseen but terrible consequences. In granting the first, the second must follow in the form of "unmentioned results." It is to these that Twain's God had instructed the stranger to draw attention. It was to the second hidden prayer that the people needed "to listen."
(unforeseen)
Help us
To tear their soldiers
to bloody shreds
with our shells.
(unforeseen)
Help us
to lay waste
their humble homes
with a hurricane of fire.
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