<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Half-Man</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">SPARING not age, sparing not youth,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">They tore their way with wolfish tooth</p><p class="line">Through human homes, through human hopes</p><p class="line">Not men, not men, but lycanthropes!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Thus do the fabled monsters rear</p><p class="line">Their heads anew; thus reappear</p><p class="line">Old Shapes that freeze us and appal;</p><p class="line">And the Half-Man is worst of all.</p></div></body></html> · Great War