<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Yellow Pansy</h1><p class="epigraph"></p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><p class="line">("Pax est tranquilla libertas.--</p><p>CICERO)</p><p class="epigraph"></p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><p class="line"> "There's pansies--that's for thoughts."--</p><p><em>Shakespeare.</em></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WINTER had swooped, a lean and hungry hawk;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">It seemed an age since summer was entombed;</p><p class="line">Yet in our garden, on its frozen stalk,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">A yellow pansy bloomed.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'Twas Nature saying by trope and metaphor :</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">" Behold, when empire against empire strives,</p><p class="line">Though all else perish, ground 'neath iron war,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">The golden thought survives."</p></div></body></html> · Great War