Might happy live, and praise its pleasantness

In such wise as the angels never could,

Wherefore are hearts, fashioned so wondrously,

All spoiled and changed by human bitterness

Into the likenesses of stone and wood?

[pg 68]

“O Long the Fiends of War shall dance”

O long the fiends of war shall dance

Upon the stricken fields of France:

And long and long their grisly cry