<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Le Jour Des Morts.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">The</span> day of the dead, the day of the dead,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Down on your knees and pray,</p><p class="line">For the souls of the living, the souls of the dying,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The souls that have passed away.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And the great bell tolls</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">For the treasure of souls</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Delivered into his hand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Gabriel, Michael, Uriel, reap</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Souls as a measure of sand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Souls from the restless deep,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Souls from the blood-red land.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The day of the dead, the day of the dead,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Down on your knees and pray,</p><p class="line">For the souls of the outcast, despised and rejected,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The heroes and victors to-day.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And the great bell rings,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And the great bell swings,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">As death makes up the number</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">Of men's lives as grains of sand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">From the decks their bodies cumber,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">From the panting shivering land,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">From crash and shriek to slumber.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The day of the dead, the day of the dead,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Up on your feet and stand</p><p class="line">For the souls of the living, the fighting, the striving,</p><p class="line">For the gun and the sword in hand.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And His Transfiguration</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Descends on a nation,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And death is a little thing,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">And lives as a grain of sand.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, bring</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:6%">From the desolate blood-red land,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">From the tall ships foundering.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The day of the dead, the day of the dead,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Down on your knees and pray</p><p class="line">For the souls of the living, the souls of the dying,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The souls that have passed away.</p></div><p class="byline">FRANCES CHESTERTON.</p></body></html> · Great War