<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">High Summer</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Pinks</span> and syringa in the garden closes</p><p class="line">And the sweet privet hedge and golden roses.</p><p class="line">The pines hot in the sun, the drone of the bee;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">They die in Flanders to keep these for me.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The long sunny days and the still weather,</p><p class="line">The cuckoo and the blackbird shouting together,</p><p class="line">The lambs calling their mothers out on the lea;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">They die in Flanders to keep these for me.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The doors and windows open: South wind blowing</p><p class="line">Warm through the clean sweet rooms, on tip-toe going,</p><p class="line">Where many sanctities, dear and delightsome be --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">They die in Flanders to keep these for me.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Daisies leaping in foam on the green grasses,</p><p class="line">The dappled sky and the stream that sings as it passes --</p><p class="line">These are bought with a price, a bitter fee --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">They die in Flanders to keep these for me.</p></div></body></html> · Great War