<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Liège</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Betwixt the Foe and France was she --</p><p class="line">France the immortal, France the free.</p><p class="line">The Foe, like one vast living sea,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Drew nigh.</p><p class="line">He dreamed that none his tide would stay;</p><p class="line">But when he bade her to make way,</p><p class="line">She, through her cannon, answered, "Nay,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Not I."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No tremor and no fear she showed;</p><p class="line">She held the pass, she barred the road,</p><p class="line">While Death's unsleeping feet bestrode</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">The ground.</p><p class="line">So long as deeds of noblest worth</p><p class="line">Are sung with joy, and tears, and mirth,</p><p class="line">Her glory shall to the ends of the Earth</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Resound.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Watched by a world that yearned to aid,</p><p class="line">Lonely she stood but undismayed.</p><p class="line">Resplendent was the part she played,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">And pure.</p><p class="line">Praised be her heroes, proud her sons!</p><p class="line">She threw her soul into the guns,</p><p class="line">Her name shall, with the loveliest ones,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Endure.</p></div><p class="byline">-- William Watson.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> The Man Who Saw, and Other Poems <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> Arising out of the War. <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (Harper & Brothers.) </p></body></html> · Great War