Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

These lines are a direct petition for the end of war and the universal restoration of peace. The imagery is liturgical and musical: the “trumpet” evokes both the battlefield signal and the biblical/ritual trumpet, suggesting that war is a kind of dreadful summons that only divine authority can silence. “Fold the whole earth in peace” casts peace as a protective covering—like a cloak or blanket—extended to everyone, not merely to one nation or side. Read as a prayer, the couplet compresses a moral stance into two imperatives: stop the machinery of violence and replace it with a comprehensive, sheltering calm.