<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Wayside Calvary</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Now</span> with the full year Memory holds her tryst</p><p class="line">Heavy with such a tale of bitter loss</p><p class="line">As never Earth has suffered since the Christ</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Hung for us on the Cross.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">If God, O Kaiser, makes the vision plain:</p><p class="line">Gives you on some lone Calvary to see</p><p class="line">The Man of Sorrows Who endured the pain</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And died to set us free --</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">How will you face beneath its Crown of thorn</p><p class="line">That Figure stark against the smoking skies,</p><p class="line">The Arms outstretched, the Sacred Head forlorn</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And those reproachful Eyes?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">How dare confront the false quest with the true</p><p class="line">Or think what gulfs between the ideals lie</p><p class="line">Of Him Who died that men might live -- and you</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Who live that men may die.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Ah, turn your eyes away: He reads your heart;</p><p class="line">Pass on and, having done your work abhorred,</p><p class="line">Join hands with Judas in his place apart,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">You who betrayed your Lord.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Owen Seaman.</p></body></html> · Great War