<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Little Old Woman</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">The</span> Little Old Woman has found you at last,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Little Old Woman who is born a Queen;</p><p class="line">She stands and she rattles at the door long-fast:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Gladly it opes to her, and she steps in.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The Little Old Woman is the World's Rose.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">With the milk and the honey she comes again.</p><p class="line">Were you forgetting her for These or Those?</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Little Old Woman has the hearts of men.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Under her tatters she is fair and young:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Sweetness of sweetness is her honey mouth;</p><p class="line">Men have died for her to save her wrong;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Love been spilt for her through the long drouth.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Were you forgetting her for These or Those?</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Shall you forget her to the last heart-beat?</p><p class="line">Dark Rose of Tenderness, and the One Rose</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To turn Life bitter and to make Death sweet.</p></div></body></html> · Great War