<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Army of the Dead.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I <span class="smallcaps">dreamed</span> that overhead</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I saw in twilight grey</p><p class="line">The Army of the Dead</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Marching upon its way,</p><p class="line">So still and passionless,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">With faces so serene,</p><p class="line">That scarcely could one guess</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Such men in War had been.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No mark of hurt they bore</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Nor smoke, nor bloody stain;</p><p class="line">Nor suffered any more</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Famine, fatigue, or pain;</p><p class="line">Nor any lust of hate</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Now lingered in their eyes --</p><p class="line">Who have fulfilled their fate,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Have lost all enmities.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">A new, a greater pride</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">So quenched the pride of race</p><p class="line">That foes marched side by side</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who once fought face to face.</p><p class="line">That ghostly Army's plan</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Knows but one race, one rod --</p><p class="line">All Nations there are Man</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the one King is God.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No longer on their ears</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The bugle's summons falls;</p><p class="line">Beyond these tangled spheres</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The Archangel's trumpet calls;</p><p class="line">And by that trumpet led</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Far up the exalted sky</p><p class="line">The Army of the Dead</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Goes by, and still goes by --</p><p class="line">Look upward, standing mute;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Salute!</p></div><p class="byline">BARRY PAIN.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War