<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Thomas Hood</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No courtier this, and nought to courts he</p><p class="line">owed,</p><p class="line">Fawned not on thrones, hymned not the</p><p class="line">great and callous,</p><p class="line">Yet, in one strain, that few remember, showed</p><p class="line">He had the password to King Oberon's</p><p class="line">palace.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And seeing a London seamstress's grey fate,</p><p class="line">He of a human heartstring made a thread,</p><p class="line">And stitched him such a royal robe of</p><p class="line">state</p><p class="line">That Eastern Kings are poorlier habited.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes;</p><p class="line">He saw her bound, and strove to sing her</p><p class="line">free.</p><p class="line">He saw her fall'n , and wrote "The Bridge of</p><p class="line">Sighs,"</p><p class="line">And on it crossed to immortality.</p></div></body></html> · Great War