<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Refreshment</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">If</span> I could have foreseen this hour,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">What terror and anguish I had seen!</p><p class="line">And not this time of joy at flower,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Cool waters and a garden green.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">All day the battle in the East</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Thunders. Dear Angels, keep him well!</p><p class="line">His mother sits as to a feast.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">O heart of steel invulnerable!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">All night I sleep the young child's sleep</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And waken to the robin's song,</p><p class="line">Blithe as the bird. Dear Angels, keep</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">My darling the sharp spears among.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Ah now, I know whose Arms enfold,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I rest on such a mighty Heart;</p><p class="line">He hides my eyes lest they behold,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In a most heavenly place apart.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Lord, if this ease be but a lull</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Ere the deep seas are over my head,</p><p class="line">I shall have had, O Beautiful!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">This hour joy-filled and comforted.</p></div></body></html> · Great War