Obscurantism. —Sodom. —Storm.
See you keep it—your Nest and Home.

You've set Duty and Loyalty free
From their chains, yet, young man—don't sleep!
Like Glad Tidings, before the gates
A white sentinel—Honor—shall wait.

Cast a rampart round your domain.
See you let not one Alien in.
And preserve from the angry waves
Your son's garden, your grandfathers'graves.

In the face of Fate's cruel strokes-
Higher still—your great-grandfathers' oaks!

24 May 1918