<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Lord Kitchener</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Unflinching</span> hero, watchful to foresee</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And face thy country's peril wheresoe'er,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Directing war and peace with equal care,</p><p class="line">Till by long toil ennobled thou wert he</p><p class="line">Whom England call'd and bade "Set my arm free</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To obey my will and save my honour fair," --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">What day the foe presumed on her despair</p><p class="line">And she herself had trust in none but thee:</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Among Herculean deeds the miracle</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That mass'd the labour of ten years in one</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Shall be thy monument. Thy work was done</p><p class="line">Ere we could thank thee; and the high sea swell</p><p class="line">Surgeth unheeding where thy proud ship fell</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">By the lone Orkneys, at the set of sun.</p></div><p class="byline">Robert Bridges</p><p> June 8, 1916 </p></body></html> · Great War