Rebel Verses

<h2><SPAN name="Return" id="Return"></SPAN>Return</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">From exile and disaster,<br/></span> <span class="i2">From banishment set free,<br/></span> <span class="i0">We shall return in sorrow,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Our homes once more to see.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The storm will surely finish,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The day must dawn at last,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The floods at length diminish,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The bitterness be past.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">From Fatherland long-banished<br/></span> <span class="i2">(Oh, church in ruins low!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Oh, roofs and chimneys vanished!)<br/></span> <span class="i2">'Tis to our homes we go!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The land is torn asunder,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The orchard trees are bare;<br/></span> <span class="i0">A muttering of thunder<br/></span> <span class="i2">Still shakes the heavy air.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet life goes on undaunted:<br/></span> <span class="i2">With aching hearts, and sore,<br/></span> <span class="i0">To raise our hearths and altars<br/></span> <span class="i2">We shall return once more.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum">[9]</span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />