<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Wind</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O Wind, I cannot see you pass,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And yet I feel you as you go</p><p class="line">Around the world and every place,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Shouting and singing loud and low.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Your breath, your touch, is on my cheeks,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Such soft caressing finger-tips!</p><p class="line">Can it be you whose anger wrecks</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The high trees and the tallest ships ?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">You run so light o'er field and hill,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You shake no frailest blossom down,</p><p class="line">And yet make havoc when you will</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">O'er land and sea, in country and town.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I hear you waking up from sleep</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Over the hills and far away,</p><p class="line">You giant, roaring as you leap</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">O'er lambs and daisies at their play.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O Wind, your name makes music sweet!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You are a lovely thing, O Wind!</p><p class="line">And how the world were incomplete</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Without your unseen presence kind.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">For now your arms are round my neck,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And now your buffets are too rough.</p><p class="line">And your sharp kisses on my cheek,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And your fierce clasp and your wild love.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The fool hath said it in his heart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">There are no miracles. O Wing</p><p class="line">Confute him when you fly apart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Close-felt, beloved, invisible Thing.</p></div></body></html> · Great War