<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Love's Immortality</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">SO sorely wounded, Love, so dark and deep,</p><p class="line">So pitiful his eyes, so full of pain,</p><p class="line">That men lamented, saying he was slain,</p><p class="line">And huddled women bowed their heads to weep,</p><p class="line">Then God was wroth, and made His lightning leap,</p><p class="line">And rolled His loudest thunder to arraign</p><p class="line">A fear so blindly foolishly profane,</p><p class="line">Bewailing Love whom all the angels keep.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And thou blasphemest, thinking that my heart</p><p class="line">Has lost the love that made it burn and thrill;</p><p class="line">Altho' the first wild rapture may depart,</p><p class="line">The love of loveliness is with me still;</p><p class="line">And love of all the lovely things thou art</p><p class="line">Upholds my courage and inspires my will.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">FAIR Hope that will not die,</p><p class="line">I lay my head at night</p><p class="line">Upon your bosom white,</p><p class="line">And with the dawning light</p><p class="line">Through meadows wet with dew,</p><p class="line">I walk with you,</p><p class="line">Fair Hope that will not die.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Fair Hope that will not die,</p><p class="line">I would that you were dead,</p><p class="line">For now the leaves are shed</p><p class="line">And darkness overhead,</p><p class="line">A wintry sky;</p><p class="line">I would that you were dead,</p><p class="line">Fair Hope that will not die.</p></div></body></html> · Great War