<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Difference</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">GREECE, in those feats and contests hard,</p><p class="line">Sung by the billowy Theban bard,</p><p class="line">Kept her fair body sound and whole,</p><p class="line">Yet also trimmed that lamp, her soul,</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No lordly Pindar now acclaims,</p><p class="line">At Life's Nemean or Pythian games,</p><p class="line">The strength, the swiftness, and the grace,</p><p class="line">That win the eternal chariot-race.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">We have the shouts, the applause, the throng,</p><p class="line">But Hellas, Hellas had the song!</p><p class="line">She loved the clash of godlike play,</p><p class="line">But it was song that crowned the day.</p></div></body></html> · Great War