<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">To the Writer of "Christ in Flanders"</h1><p class="byline"> E. M. V. <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">In The Spectator</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">ON the battlefields of Flanders men have blessed you in their pain;</p><p class="line">For you told us Who was with us, and your words were not in vain.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">All you said was very gentle, but we felt you knew our ways;</p><p class="line">And we tried to find the Footprints we had missed in other days.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">When we found Those blood--stained Footsteps, we have followed to the End;</p><p class="line">For we know that only Death can show the features of our Friend.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">In the Mansions of the Master, He will make the meaning plain</p><p class="line">Of the battlefields of Flanders, of the Crucifix of Pain. </p></div></body></html> · Great War