<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Dedication</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">These to the mourners of the War,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Saints of the great days, still and calm,</p><p class="line">Who carry affliction like a star,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who for your wounds have found a balm.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Who all so sweetly comfort take,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who have no plaint for wound or stripe,</p><p class="line">Who in the arid day will slake</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your thirst at a small conduit pipe.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Who praise your God although He slay,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who are uplifted from the deep.</p><p class="line">We know you in a murky day</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">By the sad glorious air you keep.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Your tears are only for God's eyes,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your cries are for the heart of God.</p><p class="line">What strange foretaste of Paradise</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Tells secrets as you walk abroad!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">For you, for you, unknown and dear,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">My bundle of woundwort's plucked again</p><p class="line">In this most glorious day and year</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That gives your man to die for men.</p></div></body></html> · Great War