<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The House Across <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>the Way</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The leaves looked in at the window</p><p class="line">Of the house across the way,</p><p class="line">At a man that had sinned like you and me</p><p class="line">And all poor human clay.</p><p class="line">He muttered : "In a gambol</p><p class="line">I took my soul astray,</p><p class="line">But to-morrow I'll drag it back from danger,</p><p class="line">In the morning, come what may;</p><p class="line">For no man knows what season</p><p class="line">He shall go his ghostly way."</p><p class="line">And his face fell down upon the table,</p><p class="line">And where it fell it lay.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And the wind blew under the carpet</p><p class="line">And it said, or it seemed to say:</p><p class="line">"Truly, all men must go a-ghosting</p><p class="line">And no man knows his day."</p><p class="line">And the leaves stared in at the window</p><p class="line">Like the people at a play.</p></div></body></html> · Great War