<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Mater Dolorosa.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">What have I given thee,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">England, beloved of me?</p><p class="line">I have no gold for thy desolate,</p><p class="line">I have no spear to guard thy gate,</p><p class="line">My hands are weak on the harp of fate</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">In the hour of threnody.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Yet I have given, I;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And, England, my gifts lie</p><p class="line">Far from thee and thy sacred strand.</p><p class="line">I have given the hand that held my hand,</p><p class="line">The feet that once on my palm could stand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">The hopes I was nourished by.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">All that I had, I give,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">The life that I bade live,</p><p class="line">The heart that my heart made to beat,</p><p class="line">The lips erstwhile on my lips so sweet --</p><p class="line">These have I given; is it not meet</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">To have striven that thou mayst strive?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">The clay of France doth shrine</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">This only gift of mine;</p><p class="line">England, be it not made in vain,</p><p class="line">Be but thy glory great as our pain.</p><p class="line">We are glad to have given -- would give again</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">The light of our days for thine!</p></div><p class="byline">DOROTHY MARGARET STUART.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War