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 CANADA

HIS is the ballad of Langemarck,

A story of glory and might;

Of the vast Hun horde, and Canada's part

In the great grim fight.

It was April fair on the Flanders Fields,

But the dreadest April then

That ever the years, in their fateful flight,

Had brought to this world of men.