<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Thought</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WHAT is the firemist, but a thought,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">A figment of the fervid brain?</p><p class="line">Without thy thinking it is nought--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Insensible, inert, inane.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And though the thought be wise and warm,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And from its womb a world arise,</p><p class="line">And in the world strange monsters swarm,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And grow to men with human eyes,</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Still, thought is the creative force;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And though the forms of thought decay,</p><p class="line">Natheless, the spiritual source,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of thinking will not pass away.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Brain-cells? These, too, in thought exist,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">How then can thought on these depend?</p><p class="line">The force of thought will still persist,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Altho' these things of thought do end.</p></div></body></html> · Great War