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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Deathless

October 30, 1917.

-i- In the rugged limestone pasture
 * The old hard maple glows,

With burning tone & glory Like the sun in all its sunset In the rich Laurentian autumn, The sunset of the year. -ii- At Passchendale I saw it
 * When my lifestream stopped its flowing,

As my life fell off in glory In the sunset of the year. -iii- The old hard maple glowing
 * With dying fire and splendor,

Hid at her every leafstalk The perfect end of spring -iv- At Passchendale I sleep not:
 * Only my leaves of autumn,

My autumn leaves, fell there For the wondrous spring was in me, And the life I gave at Passchendale
 * Hid the life of morrow year.

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