He is Dead Who Will Not Fight - Panzerchrist

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!