<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">In Thy Likeness</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Now</span> those who would and who would not</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Must drink Thy bitter Cup.</p><p class="line">No angels in their garden plot</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Their heads have lifted up.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">They have been scourged and been stripped bare</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As Thou wast long ago:</p><p class="line">The bloodied thorns are in their hair,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Pressed deep as Thou didst know.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">They have toiled up Thy Calvary hill</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And fainted 'neath their load:</p><p class="line">With a good will or an ill will</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Have taken the whip, the goad.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And they with Thee are crucified</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Whether they will or no:</p><p class="line">Now bid to left side and right side</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Thy healing mercies flow.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yea, when Thou dost commend Thy Sprite</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the Third Hour has struck,</p><p class="line">Summon from left hand and from right</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Thy black and Thy white flock!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">On these, on those, Thy judgments fell.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They died because they must.</p><p class="line">Give them Thy Eastertide as well</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And New Life from the dust.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">When with Ascension Thou dost rise</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Shall these not rise and go,</p><p class="line">To find once more the Paradise</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They lost so long ago?</p></div></body></html> · Great War