<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Emptiness</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Where</span> there is nothing God comes in:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Very God has room enough</p><p class="line">In the poor heart that's stripped so clean</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of earth and all the joys thereof.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I looked for shadow and the night</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When Death had taken her Love away,</p><p class="line">But for the darkness there was light,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And for the night clear floods of day.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Great light that filled it to the brim</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And overflowed and spilt around,</p><p class="line">Flowing from Him, pulsing from Him,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And all the heart was holy ground.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The earth, the heavens, cannot contain</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Our God, nor any starry place;</p><p class="line">But He who takes delight with men</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Bounds Him within a narrow space.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And where her poor heart bleeds and breaks</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Because her dearest Love is dead,</p><p class="line">The Lord of Life comes in and takes</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Warm to His arms the piteous head.</p></div></body></html> · Great War