<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">England to Denmark</h1><h1 align="center" class="head"><em>August, 1915</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Great</span> little land, old comrades of the sea,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Salt of its salt, whelps of its Viking brood,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Sharers with us in its free fearless mood,</p><p class="line">Narrow your home, world-wide your chivalry!</p><p class="line">Now call we kin for the past and the years to be,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Now is the name of righteous Cnut renewed,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Forgiven and forgot all days of feud,</p><p class="line">In your sure aid and swift sweet sympathy.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Your forbears ruled us with the wise King's yoke,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your Princess binds us with her Queenly grace,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">To-day your strong sons all our hearts constrain,</p><p class="line">Who could not brook a foul and dastard stroke,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">But swept between, and rather death would face,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Than that sea-murder Danish waves should stain.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Herbert Warren.</p></body></html> · Great War