<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">"L'Envoi"</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Oh spacious days of glory and of grieving!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Oh sounding hours of lustre and of loss!</p><p class="line">Let us be glad we lived you, still believing</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The God who gave the cannon gave the Cross.</p><p class="line">Let us be sure amid these seething passions,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The lusts of blood and hate our souls abhor,</p><p class="line">The Power that Order out of Chaos fashions</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Smites fiercest in the wrath-red forge of War. ...</p><p class="line">Have faith! Fight on! Amid the battle-hell</p><p class="line">Love triumphs, Freedom beacons, all is well.</p></div><p class="byline"> -- Robert W. Service.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> Rhymes of a Red Cross Man.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (c. 1916, Barse & Hopkins) </p></body></html> · Great War