<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Young and Old</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Young.</em><span class="smallcaps">What</span> makes the dale so strange, my dear?</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">What makes the dale so strange?</p><p class="line"><em>Old.</em> The men have gone from the dale, my dear,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">And that makes all the change.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Young.</em> The lanes and glens are still at night,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">No laughter or songs I hear.</p><p class="line"><em>Old.</em> Our lover-lads have marched to the fight</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">And maidens are lonely, my dear.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Young.</em> The kine are slow to come to the call</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">That once were all so quick.</p><p class="line"><em>Old.</em> They miss the voice known best of all,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">Of John or brother Dick.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Young.</em> And will the dale be always strange</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">And dull and sad, my dear?</p><p class="line"><em>Old.</em> Ay, lassie, we shall feel the change</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">For many a mournful year.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Henry Allsopp.</p></body></html> · Great War