<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Greeting to America Entering the War</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">A BOY, I dreamed that out of Liverpool</p><p class="line">I sailed adventuring to the West. Romance</p><p class="line">Presently led me thither, and th' expanse</p><p class="line">Of your wide world of freedom did not fool</p><p class="line">My April dream. Anew, I went to school</p><p class="line">To wonder, for I saw all circumstance</p><p class="line">Growing obedient to man's spirit, and chance</p><p class="line">I saw you take, as it had been a tool.</p><p class="line">But now, America, that we are set</p><p class="line">Together down, commensal with the worm</p><p class="line">At the feast of Slaughter, you have put a term</p><p class="line">To all my faith's shortcoming; you have met</p><p class="line">Our will with yours. Implacable to affirm</p><p class="line">The whole of freedom that was never yet.</p></div><p class="byline">HENRY BRYAN BINNS.</p><p>London<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> October the 28th 1917</p></body></html> · Great War