<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Journeyman</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">NOT baser than his own homekeeping kind</p><p class="line">Whose journeyman he is--</p><p class="line">Blind sons and breastless daughters of the blind</p><p class="line">Whose darkness pardons his,--</p><p class="line">About the world, while all the world approves,</p><p class="line">The pimp of Fashion steals,</p><p class="line">With all the angels mourning their dead loves</p><p class="line">Behind his bloody heels.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">It may be late when Nature cries</p><p class="line">Enough!</p><p class="line">As one day cry she will,</p><p class="line">And man may have the wit to put her off</p><p class="line">With shifts a season still;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But man may find the pinch importunate</p><p class="line">And fall to blaming men--</p><p class="line">Blind sires and breastless mothers of his fate,</p><p class="line">It may be late and may be very late,</p><p class="line">Too late for blaming then.</p></div></body></html> · Great War