PREFACE
Reading edition
Nearly all these Poems have appeared during the past year in the columns of the Globe and the Mail and Empire of Toronto, and the Free Press of Detroit, Michigan.
When the Author read from his poems last winter before the Women's Press Club of Toronto one of its members suggested that an engrossed and illuminated copy of the poem, "I Take Off My Hat to Albert," be presented to His Majesty, King Albert of Belgium. This was done through the kind offices and courtesy of Mr. Goor, the Belgian Consul-General at Ottawa.
His Majesty's gracious letter of acceptance, which the reader will find on another page, is indeed a Royal Foreword to these poetic blossoms of a piteous though heroic time.
THOMAS O'HAGAN January 20th, 1916.
Contents
Letter From the King of Belgium Translation I Take Off My Hat to Albert The Kaiser's Favorite Poems Louvain The Kaiser's Bhoys Mothers In the Trenches The Christ-Child God's New Year's Gift Trouble in the Louvre "Bobs" of Kandahar Song of the Zeppelin "Sock it to 'Em" Langemarck The Bugle Call His Mission Achilles' Tomb The Chrism of Kings Tipperary Gather the Harvest The Kaiser's "Place in the Sun"