<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">"For All We Have and Are"</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">For</span> all we have and are,</p><p class="line">For all our children's fate,</p><p class="line">Stand up and meet the war.</p><p class="line">The Hun is at the gate!</p><p class="line">Our world has passed away</p><p class="line">In wantonness o'erthrown.</p><p class="line">There is nothing left to-day</p><p class="line">But steel and fire and stone.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Though all we knew depart,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">The old commandments stand:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">"In courage keep your heart,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">In strength lift up your hand."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Once more we hear the word</p><p class="line">That sickened earth of old:</p><p class="line">"No law except the sword</p><p class="line">Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"</p><p class="line">Once more it knits mankind,</p><p class="line">Once more the nations go</p><p class="line">To meet and break and bind</p><p class="line">A crazed and driven foe.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Comfort, content, delight --</p><p class="line">The ages' slow-bought gain --</p><p class="line">They shrivelled in a night,</p><p class="line">Only ourselves remain</p><p class="line">To face the naked days</p><p class="line">In silent fortitude,</p><p class="line">Through perils and dismays</p><p class="line">Renewed and re-renewed.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Though all we made depart,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">The old commandments stand:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">"In patience keep your heart,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">In strength lift up your hand."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No easy hopes or lies</p><p class="line">Shall bring us to our goal,</p><p class="line">But iron sacrifice</p><p class="line">Of body, will, and soul</p><p class="line">There is but one task for all --</p><p class="line">For each one life to give.</p><p class="line">Who stands if freedom fall?</p><p class="line">Who dies if England live?</p></div><p class="byline">Rudyard Kipling</p></body></html> · Great War