<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Edith Cavell</h1><p class="byline"> MCLANDBURGH WILSON <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>From Miss Wilson's book entitled "The Little Flag On MainStreet," published and copyright, 1917, by The Macmillan Company, New York. Special permission to insert in this book.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">ON law and love and mercy </p><p class="line"> Was laid the German curse </p><p class="line">When to her execution</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Was led the British nurse.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">In brutal might they thought her</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of help and friendship shorn;</p><p class="line">John Brown, Jeanne d'Arc, all martyrs,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Companioned her that morn.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">A harmless, tender woman,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They took her to her doom; </p><p class="line">A dread, resistless spirit</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">She rises from the tomb.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Still Germany shall fear her,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For since that bloody dawn</p><p class="line">Through all the earth that trembles</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Her soul goes marching on! </p></div></body></html> · Great War