<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Rapture</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">OUT of the east wind, making gray</p><p class="line">The face of the dejected day,</p><p class="line">I stept into a minster, where</p><p class="line">Aisles of praise and towers of prayer.</p><p class="line">Fencing me from all the strife</p><p class="line">Of this illegible, blurred life.</p><p class="line">Took and folded up and furled</p><p class="line">The undecipherable world.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And there it seemed that I forgot</p><p class="line">All I would fain remember not;</p><p class="line">Folly's works by fools adored;</p><p class="line">The senseless gun, the soulless sword.</p><p class="line">And through the flushed and jewelled gloom</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">That rubied some Crusader's tomb,</p><p class="line">There rose and rolled a golden wave,</p><p class="line">That, thundering down the cloudy nave,</p><p class="line">Ravishingly with violence sweet</p><p class="line">Stormed the earth from 'neath my feet,</p><p class="line">Swept me as a leaf abroad</p><p class="line">In great tides of billowing laud,</p><p class="line">Leaving me at last afar,</p><p class="line">Derelict on an island star,</p><p class="line">Ruthlessly and blissfully</p><p class="line">Cast up as jetsam of the sea</p><p class="line">That visits with all-linking flow</p><p class="line">Each heavenly archipelago.</p></div></body></html> · Great War