<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Anniversarys </h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">There</span> were so many to pray for, O dear grey head,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your day went out unnoted; but when I slept,</p><p class="line">Tender and all-forgiving you came from the dead,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Came in my dreams to remind me of trysts unkept.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Never a prayer was offered: no Mass was sung:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I thought day-long on the stranger in bitter need.</p><p class="line">Into my dreams, my dear one, as when I was young,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You came and we clung together, O dear grey head.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">All night long it was parting, and parting soon—</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">All night long I was weeping, and weeping sore—</p><p class="line">That was the loneliest parting under the moon,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When the day and the night together met at the door.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Dear, but you had to travel so far to remind</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your daughter who went forgetting, ah, cold as the clay!</p><p class="line">All night long you stayed with me, fond and kind;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">All night long you grieved with me until the day.</p></div></body></html> · Great War