<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">To a Literary Cleric</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I WOULD not have you scorn archdeaconships,</p><p class="line">Or comfortable deaneries refuse;</p><p class="line">Yet should I mourn, did these things quite</p><p class="line">eclipse</p><p class="line">Your mild and worthy Muse.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Nor shall I watch incurious your career,</p><p class="line">For though your heart on things above be</p><p class="line">set.</p><p class="line">You lack not gifts such as avail us here,</p><p class="line">And may reach Lambeth yet.</p></div></body></html> · Great War