He is Dead Who Will Not Fight

The naked earth is warm with spring
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s gaze glorying
And quivers in the sunny breeze;
And life is colour and warmth and light
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase
All the bright company of Heaven
Hold him in their high comradeship
The Dog-Star, and the Sisters Seven
Orion’s Belt and sworded hip
The woodland trees that stand together
They stand to him !
And life is colour and warmth and light
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase
Christ — Thy name is Panzer!