<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Sunset.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">HOODED in angry mist, the sun goes down:</p><p class="line">Steel-gray the clouds roll out across the Sea:</p><p class="line">Is this a Kingdom? Then give Death the crown,</p><p class="line">For here no emperor hath won, save He.</p><p class="line">Though from the blackened grasses of the spring</p><p class="line">The dead look up to where the swallow flies:</p><p class="line">And in this woodland never a bird will sing--</p><p class="line">The laughter lives within the sentry's eyes.</p></div></body></html> · Great War