<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">France</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Half artist and half anchorite,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Part siren and part Socrates,</p><p class="line">Her face -- alluring fair, yet recondite --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Smiled through her salons and academies.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Lightly she wore her double mask,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Till sudden, at war's kindling spark,</p><p class="line">Her inmost self, in shining mail and casque,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Blazed to the world her single soul -- Jeanne d' Arc!</p></div><p class="byline">-- Percy Mackaye.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> The Present Hour.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (The Macmillan Co.) </p></body></html> · Great War