<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Missing</h1><h1 align="center" class="head"><em>To Leucha Mary Warner</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">He</span> is "Missing," and forlorn</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Drag her days in grief and pain.</p><p class="line">Every morn a hope is born,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Only to be lost again.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"Missing!" Almost better "Killed."</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The long anguish breaks her heart</p><p class="line">That's a dead thing, numbed and chilled</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Till the live fear bids it start.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Now a knocking at the door,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Now a shouting in the street,</p><p class="line">Makes her poor heart run before,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The most bitter news to meet.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"Missing!" It may be he dies</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">'Mid his foes and comfortless.</p><p class="line">When sleep shuts her heavy eyes,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Still she seeks him in distress.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Dear, he is not missing, not lost.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Rest your heart as on a bed.</p><p class="line">For the One who loves him most</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Knows where he has laid his head.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">He accounted of all worth,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">This beloved bought with a price,</p><p class="line">Watchers look East, South, and North</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">From the heights of Paradise</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Lest that he take any ill.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Still the Mighty Lover goes,</p><p class="line">Seeks the beloved o'er many a hill.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Be at rest, dear child! <em>He</em> knows!</p></div></body></html> · Great War