Page:Canadian Singers and Their Songs.djvu/25

CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS

They are not dead, the soldier and the sailor,
 * Fallen for Freedom's sake;

They merely sleep with faces that are paler
 * Until they wake.

— They will not weep, the mothers, in the years
 * The future will decree;

For they have died that the battles and the tears
 * Should cease to be.

— They will not die, the victorious and the slain,
 * Sleeping in foreign soil,

They gave their lives, but to the world is the gain
 * Of their sad toil.

— They are not dead, the soldier and the sailor,
 * Fallen for Freedom’s sake;

They merely sleep with faces that are paler
 * Until they wake.

—

Arthur S. Bourinot. 21