<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The War Films</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O <span class="smallcaps">living</span> pictures of the dead,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">O songs without a sound,</p><p class="line">O fellowship whose phantom tread</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Hallows a phantom ground --</p><p class="line">How in a gleam have these revealed</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The faith we had not found.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">We have sought God in a cloudy Heaven,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We have passed by God on earth:</p><p class="line">His seven sins and his sorrows seven,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">His wayworn mood and mirth,</p><p class="line">Like a ragged cloak have hid from us</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The secret of his birth.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Brother of men, when now I see</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The lads go forth in line,</p><p class="line">Thou knowest my heart is hungry in me</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As for thy bread and wine;</p><p class="line">Thou knowest my heart is bowed in me</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To take their death for mine.</p></div><p class="byline">Henry Newbolt</p></body></html> · Great War