In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="IN_TIME_OF_THE_BREAKING_OF_NATIONS" id="IN_TIME_OF_THE_BREAKING_OF_NATIONS"></SPAN>IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS"</h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Only a man harrowing clods<br/></span> <span class="i1">In a slow silent walk,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With an old horse that stumbles and nods<br/></span> <span class="i1">Half asleep as they stalk.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Only thin smoke without flame<br/></span> <span class="i1">From the heaps of couch grass:<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yet this will go onward the same<br/></span> <span class="i1">Though Dynasties pass.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yonder a maid and her wight<br/></span> <span class="i1">Come whispering by;<br/></span> <span class="i0">War's annals will fade into night<br/></span> <span class="i1">Ere their story die.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />