<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Desire</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">THIS is my desire</p><p class="line">Which burns the fuel of my soul.</p><p class="line">O terrible white fire!</p><p class="line">Leaping to blister the sky.</p><p class="line">Beyond my sight;</p><p class="line">Ever reaching higher;</p><p class="line">My strength and my delight;</p><p class="line">Oh out of my control!</p><p class="line">This is my desire:—</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">To hear the song that beauty sings.</p><p class="line">To refashion the earth with the joy of things.</p><p class="line">To grasp in a corner of my mind</p><p class="line">The sunlit clouds, the driving wind.</p><p class="line">To let imagination fly</p><p class="line">Up the beauty of the sky.</p><p class="line">To hold it with me when I go</p><p class="line">To sing my song on earth below.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">This is the desire</p><p class="line">Which burns the fuel of my soul.</p><p class="line">O terrible white fire!</p><p class="line">Leaping to blister the sky.</p><p class="line">Beyond my sight;</p><p class="line">Ever reaching higher,</p><p class="line">My strength and my delight;</p><p class="line">Oh out of my control!</p><p class="line">This is my desire.</p></div></body></html> · Great War