<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">War</h1><p class="byline"> COL. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN The Scoop, The Chicago Press Clue's Magazine</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">By blazing homes, through forests torn </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And blackened harvest fields,</p><p class="line">The grim and drunken god of war</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In frenzied fury reels.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">His breath--the sulph'rous stench of guns--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That death and famine deals </p><p class="line">And Pity, pleading, wounded falls </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Beneath his steel-shod heels. </p></div></body></html> · Great War