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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Killed In Action

My father lived his three-score years; my son lived twenty-two; One looked long back on work well done, and one had all to do— Yet which the better served his world, I know not, nor do you!

To one, Life chattered all her lore, `Till he grew wise and gray, To one, she whispered only, ere she turned her face away— Yet which her deeper secret held only they two might say.

Peace gave my father restful days, with love and fame for wage; War gave my son an unmarked grave, and an unwritten page— Who shall declare which gift conveyed The greater heritage?

Isabel Ecclestone MacKay

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