FROM "A CANADIAN TWILIGHT"
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Oh, to have died that day at Langemarck! To have perished nobly in a noble cause! . . . . . . . . . . For in the years to come it shall be told How these laid down their lives, not for their homes, Their orchards, fields and cities: "They were driven To slaughter by no tyrant's lust for power; Of their free manhood's choice they crossed the sea To save a stricken people from its foe. They died for Justice—Justice owes them this: That what they died for be not overthrown." [A]Bernard Freeman Trotter
From "A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and Peace"—By permission of McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., Publishers, Toronto