<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Harvest Moon: 1916</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Moon</span>, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim,</p><p class="line">Moon of the lifted tides and their folded burden,</p><p class="line">Look, look down. And gather the blinded oceans.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Moon of compassion.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Come, white Silence, over the one sea pathway:</p><p class="line">Pour with hallowing hands on the surge and outcry,</p><p class="line">Silver flame; and over the famished blackness,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Petals of moonlight.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Once again, the formless void of a world-wreck</p><p class="line">Gropes its way through the echoing dark of chaos:</p><p class="line">Tide on tide, to the calling, lost horizons, --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">One in the darkness.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">You that veil the light of the all-beholding,</p><p class="line">Shed white tidings down to the dooms of longing,</p><p class="line">Down to the timeless dark; and the sunken treasures,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">One in the darkness.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Touch, and harken, -- under that shrouding silver,</p><p class="line">Rise and fall, the heart of the sea and its legions,</p><p class="line">All and one; one with the breath of the deathless,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Rising and falling.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Touch and waken so, to a far hereafter,</p><p class="line">Ebb and flow, the deep, and the dead in their longing:</p><p class="line">Till at last, on the hungering face of the waters,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">There shall be Light.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Light of Light, give us to see, for their sake.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Light of Light, grant them eternal peace;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">And let light perpetual shine upon them;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:14%"><em>Light, everlasting.</em></p></div><p class="byline">Josephine Preston Peabody</p></body></html> · Great War