<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">To America, Concerning England</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">ART thou her child, born in the proud midday</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Of her large soul's abundance and excess,</p><p class="line">Her daughter and her mightiest heritress,</p><p class="line">Dowered with her thoughts, and lit on thy great way</p><p class="line">By her great lamps that shine and fail not ? Yea!</p><p class="line">And at this thunderous hour of struggle and stress,</p><p class="line">Hither across the ocean wilderness</p><p class="line">What word comes frozen on the frozen spray ?</p><p class="line"><em>Neutrality!</em> The tiger from his den</p><p class="line">Springs at thy mother's throat, and canst thou now</p><p class="line">Watch with a stranger's gaze ? So be it, then !</p><p class="line">Thy loss is more than hers; for, bruised and torn,</p><p class="line">She shall yet live without thine aid, and thou</p><p class="line">Without the crown divine thou might'st have worn.</p></div></body></html> · Great War