<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Brothers</h1><h1 align="center" class="head"><em>(For Arnold and Donald Fletcher.)</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">One</span> called from Salonika and his call</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Rang to his brother;</p><p class="line">Forded wide rivers, climbed the mountain wall,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Seeking the other.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Are you asleep, Arnold, or do you wake?</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Our way's together!</p><p class="line">The day's before us and the path we take</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Over the heather.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">As oft before, breasting the Wicklow hills,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Light-foot and leaping</p><p class="line">Over the bog-pools and the singing rills,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Side by side keeping.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">We have known all the best that life can give,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Tasted the sweetest;</p><p class="line">Shall we grow old, lag heavy-foot and grieve,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">We, who were fleetest?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Let us be gone while yet it is the morn</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Dewy before us,</p><p class="line">Light on the mountains and the springing corn</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">And the lark o'er us!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The voice from Salonika found the way</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Easy of passage,</p><p class="line">And to French Flanders on the second day</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Carried the message.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Arnold has gone the way that Donald went,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Donald's o'ertaken;</p><p class="line">Up to the highest peaks they climb unspent,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">Footing the bracken.</p></div></body></html> · Great War