<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Immortal</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Here</span>, where I went in and out,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I no more may come and go.</p><p class="line">This with sweetbriar fringed about</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Is another's garden, so</p><p class="line">His the master's foot to come</p><p class="line">In each dear, remembered room.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Such a blank, forgetting face</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The house turns that was my house,</p><p class="line">Where I built a little space,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As the birds build in the boughs.</p><p class="line">But the birds—the birds are gone</p><p class="line">And the vernal days are done.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Forth I fare that once would stay.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I have neither walls nor roof,</p><p class="line">Being a traveller, blithe and gay,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In a world that's weather-proof,</p><p class="line">Where no rust eats in, no moth</p><p class="line">Frets the sacred altar-cloth.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Open, skies, and let me through.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Here I struck no roots to be</p><p class="line">Fearful of all winds that blew.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">There I shall grow a tree, a tree </p><p class="line">Where in calm and shining weather, </p><p class="line">My birds and I shall be together.</p></div></body></html> · Great War