<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">"Her Soul"</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Her soul is vague and shallow--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">A thin uncertain stream</p><p class="line">That trickles o'er the fallow,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Dim deserts of a dream.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">It knows nor nock nor mountain,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Nor cataract nor pool;</p><p class="line">It bubbles from a fountain,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And loiters calm and cool.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">It ripples not nor revels,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">But lisps its lazy tunes,</p><p class="line">Along the dusty levels,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Around the sandy dunes.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Across the plains of dreaming</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I watch it twist and run--</p><p class="line">A thread of silver gleaming</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In a Sahara sun.</p></div></body></html> · Great War