<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">"Integer Vitæ</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">HE whose incorrigible Hope redeems</p><p class="line">Banal to-days with beautiful to-morrows,</p><p class="line">Who sows the fallow dust with futile dreams,</p><p class="line">Will harvest only sorrows;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And he who spends the sunny days of youth</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Bent double over Reason's rusty shares</p><p class="line">Will harvest only stacks of stubbly truth</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And sheaves of golden tares;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But he who lives life plenary and whole--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Labour and laughter, loveliness and song--</p><p class="line">With dreams and visions in his inner soul</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Speeding the plough along.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">He who incarnates love in lovely deeds,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Whose dreams in charity their wings employ,</p><p class="line">Will fill Time's furrows with immortal seeds</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And reap eternal joy.</p></div></body></html> · Great War