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 That neither schools nor priests,

Nor Kings may build again

A people with the heart of beasts

Made wise concerning men.

Whereby our dead shall sleep

In honour, unbetrayed,

And we in faith and honour keep

That peace for which they paid.



1918

Watchmen sitting in a tower,

Watching what had come upon mankind,

Showed the Man the Glory and the Power,

And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind.

"All things on Earth your will shall win you."

('Twas so their council ran)

"But the Kingdom the Kingdom is within you,"

Said the Man's own mind to the Man.

For time—and some time—

As it was in the bitter years before

So it shall be in the over-sweetened hour—

That a man's mind is wont to tell him more

Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower.



(Prelude to Barrack Room Ballads)

 made for you a song,

And it may be right or wrong.

But only you can tell me if it's true;

I have tried for to explain

Both your pleasure and your pain,

And, Thomas, here's my best respects to you!

