<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Kitchener of Khartoum</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Weep</span>, waves of England! Nobler clay</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Was ne'er to nobler grave consigned;</p><p class="line">The wild waves weep with us to-day</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who mourn a nation's master mind.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">We hoped an honored age for him,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And ashes laid with England's great;</p><p class="line">And rapturous music, and the dim</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Deep hush that veils our Tomb of State.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But this is better. Let him sleep</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where sleep the men who made us free,</p><p class="line">For England's heart is in the deep,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And England's glory is the sea.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">One only vow above his bier,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">One only oath beside his bed:</p><p class="line">We swear our flag shall shield him here</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Until the sea gives up its dead!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Leap, waves of England! Boastful be,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And fling defiance in the blast,</p><p class="line">For Earth is envious of the Sea</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Which shelters England's dead at last.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Robert J. C. Stead.</p></body></html> · Great War