<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Heroes</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">By such strange and wonderful ways</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">God would save His world again.</p><p class="line">All our days are holy days,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Starry heroes all our men.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">There's naught common or unclean</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In this splendid new-made earth:</p><p class="line">Hearts uplifted, eyes serene,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Grief goes gayer now than mirth.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Quietly in the sacred night</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Tears must fall, O noble tears!</p><p class="line">That are shed in the Lords' sight</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And are only for His ears.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Who would mourn aloud for sons</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Gorgeous in our firmament,</p><p class="line">Starry constellations</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In the way their fathers went?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">From the innumerable grave</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">There will spring a world new-born,</p><p class="line">With the austerest eyes and brave</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And its clear gaze towards the morn.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">He who gave His Son to die</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For man's purchase, gives once more</p><p class="line">These, His beloved sons, to buy</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Him a world worth dying for.</p></div><p class="byline">--Katharine Tynan.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> The Flower of Youth.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.) </p></body></html> · Great War