<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">To Belgium</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Champion</span> of human honour, let us lave</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your feet and bind your wounds on bended knee.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Though coward hands have nailed you to the tree</p><p class="line">And shed your innocent blood and dug your grave,</p><p class="line">Rejoice and live! Your oriflamme shall wave --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">While man has power to perish and be free --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">A golden flame of holiest Liberty,</p><p class="line">Proud as the dawn and as the sunset brave.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Belgium, where dwelleth reverence for right</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Enthroned above all ideals; where your fate</p><p class="line">And your supernal patience and your might</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Most sacred grow in human estimate,</p><p class="line">You shine a star above this stormy night</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Little no more, but infinitely great.</p></div><p class="byline">Eden Phillpotts</p></body></html> · Great War