<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The Isle of Song</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WAN Memories, with patient widow faces,</p><p class="line">Looked calmly backwards thro' the withered years,</p><p class="line">And smiled to find, like dew, in distant places,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Forgotten tears.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And in the shadowy grove of cypress-trees,</p><p class="line">With ashes on their garments and their hair,</p><p class="line">I found a crowd of Sorrows on their knees</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Before Despair.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Also, I saw a Dream with misty face,</p><p class="line">And heavy languid eyelids lily-white,</p><p class="line">Who made a mockery of Time and Space</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">By day and night.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And Hope I met, with eyes so blue and blind</p><p class="line">They could discern the fruit within the pod,</p><p class="line">And in the darkness of the world could find</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Love of God.</p></div></body></html> · Great War