<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Bulwarks.</h1><p class="inline-note" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">[The splendid spirt of gallantry and devotion which animates the officers and men of his Majesty's forces. -- Sir John French.]</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">What</span> though, with sullen roar,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The raging billows beat,</p><p class="line">Against the everlasting shore,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where strength and patience meet?</p><p class="line">At last the mad assault is o'er</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And broken waves retreat.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">So swells the Teuton wave,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Against the British strand --</p><p class="line">And so, indomitably brave,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The British legions stand,</p><p class="line">While disappointed despots rave</p><p class="line">To see her living bulwarks save</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">The threatened Motherland.</p></div><p class="byline">A. W. BUSTRIDGE.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War