Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="ARMIES_IN_THE_FIRE" id="ARMIES_IN_THE_FIRE"></SPAN>ARMIES IN THE FIRE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">The lamps now glitter down the street;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Faintly sound the falling feet<br/></span> <span class="i12">And the blue even slowly falls<br/></span> <span class="i12">About the garden trees and walls.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Now in the falling of the gloom<br/></span> <span class="i12">The red fire paints the empty room;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And warmly on the roof it looks,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And flickers on the backs of books.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Armies march by tower and spire<br/></span> <span class="i12">Of cities blazing, in the fire;&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Till as I gaze with staring eyes,<br/></span> <span class="i12">The armies fade, the lustre dies.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Then once again the glow returns;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Again the phantom city burns;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And down the red-hot valley, lo!<br/></span> <span class="i12">The phantom armies marching go!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Blinking embers, tell me true<br/></span> <span class="i12">Where are those armies marching to,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And what the burning city is<br/></span> <span class="i12">That crumbles in your furnaces!<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_071.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="229" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />