<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">After Years</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">I give</span> God glory and grace</p><p class="line">I am come home again</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To the delightsome ways</p><p class="line">And the wild soft rain.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Lights on the hill and plain</p><p class="line">As in remembered days.</p><p class="line">Now I am home again,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I give great praise.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">When I awake at dawn,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I hear the birdies sing;</p><p class="line">Deep dews in field and lawn,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The mountains in a ring;</p><p class="line">Life an enchanted thing,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The hour grey as a fawn;</p><p class="line">I whisper thanksgiving</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When I awake at dawn.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I seek no more the town,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Ah, wherefore should I go?</p><p class="line">Hills to the sea look down,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The rivers softly flow.</p><p class="line">With friends of long ago</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Life has a golden crown,</p><p class="line">In fields I used to know,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And meadows grey and brown.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And if the night be chill,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of fuel I have great store;</p><p class="line">We heap the fire until</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The faggots leap and roar.</p><p class="line">All my beloveds of yore</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of talk shall take their fill</p><p class="line">Till the grey dawn's at the door</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the grey wind at the sill.</p></div></body></html> · Great War