<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Dominant Three</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">LIKE lordliest Day, that to each crannied rafter</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Of Life's great hall would pierce, was Goethe's Muse.</p><p class="line">Like emerald twilight, when no heavenly dews</p><p class="line">Assuage its bosom, Heine shimmered after</p><p class="line">Heine, who flung himself with antic laughter,</p><p class="line">In elfin armour of chameleon hues,</p><p class="line">Full on Philistia's never conquered thews,</p><p class="line">The gates of Gaza, and the sons of Caphtur!</p><p class="line">Then did unstarry night succeed to that</p><p class="line">Rich-tinted dusk ; and no large, mastering strain,</p><p class="line">No nightingale's incomparable pain,</p><p class="line">Goldenly stormed the silence; but there sat</p><p class="line">Nietzsche the loveless, like a vampire bat,</p><p class="line">Malign on the broad breast of Allemaine.</p></div></body></html> · Great War