<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Six Fragments</h1><h1 align="" class="head">THUNDER AND LIGHTNING</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">GOD sowed the lightning and there grew a soul.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That soul is thou.</p><p class="line">God scattered thunder, and the thunder roll</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Is in thine utterance now.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">A NEST</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">My heart is full of lovely words--</p><p class="line">Poor, little, helpless, huddled things;</p><p class="line">Like a nest full of singing birds,</p><p class="line">With broken wings.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">WITCHERY</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Thy lips bewitch the waves of light</p><p class="line">And make a red rose of a white;</p><p class="line">And silent tides of air transform</p><p class="line">Into a surging music-storm.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">A HEART</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">A crumbling crag, all crevices and caves,</p><p class="line">Where birds and bats have homes, and gods have graves.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">PARADOXES</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Like a white lily swaying in the wind,</p><p class="line">So rooted, yet so restless is thy mind;</p><p class="line">And thy high soul is like a burning star,</p><p class="line">So steadfast and so swift, so instant and so far.</p></div><h1 align="" class="head">ARTIFICE</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Out of our sins</p><p class="line">Wise Love begins</p><p class="line">To make a soul.</p><p class="line">On sense of guilt</p><p class="line">A heart is built,</p><p class="line">Humble and whole.</p></div></body></html> · Great War