Then, as I thus looked upward through the net

Wherein both soul and flesh lay cunningly caught,

God (’twas like Springtime calling from the earth

The flowers to birth!)

Smiled down and did restore

All that I had before.

THE STRANGER

It happened in a blood-red hell ringed round with golden weather;

Walking in khaki through a trench he came,

When life was death, and wounded men and great shells screamed together: