<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">An Extravaganza</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">HER eyes are dim, yet also bright</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And wide-awake, yet natheless dreaming,</p><p class="line">Like moonbeams on a summer night,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Athro' a nimbus softly streaming,</p><p class="line">Or morning's liberating light,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The blind unhappy dark redeeming.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Her eyes are bright, yet also dim,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As though with joy they had been weeping,</p><p class="line">The lashes, broidering the brim,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Have tiny teardrops in their keeping,</p><p class="line">And rainbows arch from rim to rim,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And through the arch stars are peeping.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O eyes so bright, so dim, so fair,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Sunlight and moonlight intertwining,</p><p class="line">Weeping and laughter, pride and prayer,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Within your lily lids enshrining,</p><p class="line">Your beauty fills me with despair,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You blind me, blind me with your shining.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">You blind me like the lissom blade</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of sudden summer-lightning flashes,</p><p class="line">Your witchery makes my heart afraid,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your beauty baffles and abashes;</p><p class="line">I seek a dewy ambuscade</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In the lilied boscage of your lashes.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yet some day, when the lightnings dart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Between the lilies of my cover,</p><p class="line">Out of my ambush I will start</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And leap the eyelids as a lover;</p><p class="line">And secret pathways to thy heart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">My fervid passion will discover.</p></div></body></html> · Great War