Henry Head, Destroyers and Other Verses — I Cannot Stand and Wait (1919)
“ I CANNOT STAND AND WAIT. How can I serve who am too old to fight? I cannot stand and wait With folded hands, and lay me down at night In restless expectation that the day Will bring some stroke of Fate I cannot help to stay Once, like the spider in his patterned web, Based on immutable law, Boldly I spun the stands of arduous thought, Now seeming naught, Rent in the sudden hurricane of war. ”
