<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">To Those in Nameless Graves</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No need of stone to mark the place</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where buried lie the glorious dead.</p><p class="line">Our hearts their sepulcher doth grace</p><p class="line">And in our souls a halo trace</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As light to show the way they led.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No need of blossoms, leaves, or wreath</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To cheer their nameless couch and cold.</p><p class="line">The only flower that decks the heath</p><p class="line">And flourishes in winter's teeth</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The flag they fought for doth unfold.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No need of long and fervent prayer</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">At heaven's gate to speed them well:</p><p class="line">For God receives them, full aware</p><p class="line">On earth they nobly did their share</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When they for home and country fell.</p></div><p class="byline">-- L. Houzeau.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> La Liberté (Paris). </p></body></html> · Great War