<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Uninhabited</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">BEHOLD a sapless husk, in name a man,</p><p class="line">That never shook with laughter at a jest,</p><p class="line">Or flashed in anger at a hateful deed,</p><p class="line">Or loved a woman, or sinned a headlong sin!</p><p class="line">In two score years grown old and moribund,</p><p class="line">His lean soul, arid as the childless sands,</p><p class="line">Crumbles, and dustily disintegrates,</p><p class="line">Dies piecemeal, less lamented than a tree.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">It is not the well-warmed, well-peopled house</p><p class="line">That soonest falls to wrack. 'Tis the disused</p><p class="line">And empty dwelling, that with fireless hearth,</p><p class="line">Pictureless walls, and shuttered window panes,</p><p class="line">Coldly, untimely mopes into decay.</p></div></body></html> · Great War