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The Wet Litany

When the waters’ countenanceBlurs ‘twixt glance and second glance;When our tattered smokes forerunAshen ‘neath a silvered sun;When the curtain of the hazeShuts upon our helpless ways—  Hear the Channel Fleet at sea:  Libera nos Domine! When the engines’ bated pulseScarcely…

We and They

Father and Mother, and Me,  Sister and Auntie sayAll the people like us are We,  And every one else is They.And They live over the sea,  While We live over the way,But-would you believe it? — They look upon We …

The Way Through the Woods.

They shut the road through the woodsSeventy years ago.Weather and rain have undone it again,And now you would never knowThere was once a road through the woodsBefore they planted the trees.It is underneath the coppice and heath,And the thin anemones.Only…

The Waster

From the date that the doors of his prep-school close  On the lonely little sonHe is taught by precept, insult, and blows  The Things that Are Never Done.Year after year, without favour or fear,  From seven to twenty-two,His keepers insist…

The Wage-Slaves

Oh, glorious are the guarded heights  Where guardian souls abide—Self-exiled from our gross delights—  Above, beyond, outside:An ampler arc their spirit swings—  Commands a juster view—We have their word for all these things,  No doubt their words are true. Yet…

The Voortrekker

The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfil God’s utmost will, unknowing his desire. And he shall see old planets change and alien stars arise, And give the gale his seaworn sail…

The Virginity

Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose  From his first love, no matter who she be.Oh, was there ever sailor free to choose,  That didn’t settle somewhere near the sea? Myself, it don’t excite me nor amuse  To…

The Vineyard

At the eleventh hour he came,But his wages were the sameAs ours who all day long had trodThe wine-press of the Wrath of God. When he shouldered through the linesOf our cropped and mangled vines,His unjaded eye could scanHow each…

The Veterans

Written for the Gathering of Survivors the Indian Mutiny, Albert Hall, 1907 To-day, across our fathers’ graves,  The astonished years revealThe remnant of that desperate host  Which cleansed our East with steel. Hail and farewell! We greet you here,  With…

The Verdicts

(JUTLAND)     1916 Not in the thick of the fight,     Not in the press of the odds, Do the heroes come to their height,     Or we know the demi-gods.   That stands over till peace.…