<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">War.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O <span class="smallcaps">Hell</span>-sped fury War, with wings raised high</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Hawk-like that hoverest to smite! --</p><p class="line">How many eager now, stark-dead shall lie,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Ere thou hast flown thy fatal flight!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O sea of strife, whose armed hosts still come on,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Like wind-urged waves across the main! --</p><p class="line">What throes must flesh endure ere thou sink down</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In smoothly flowing Peace again!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O callous War! Cold-blooded game of death,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">With men 'gainst men as foes arrayed, --</p><p class="line">What pride of youth must yield life's precious breath</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Ere to an end thy game be played!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O devastating, desolating War,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">What dirges follow thee! what dearth</p><p class="line">And blackened ruin, where thou goest, mar</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The goodly pleasantness of Earth!</p></div><p class="byline">GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War