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 Clive Phillips- Wolley

And to gain a party triumph, drag your country s name through the mud?

Can ye not pull together to lift your Canada s head, Whose pride alone consoles her as she kneels by her

gallant dead? She is hurt beyond hoping or healing, yet she has not

flinched nor cried ; She is proud of the boys her Mother took, will ye not

spare her pride?

��SCRAPPED

IN the last dull flat of a river, That has all but reached the Sea, Where it pauses, half dead, to shiver

Ere it plunge in Eternity, On the mud it has purged ere it passes

Lies a warship of England s Fleet, Fouled by the slime and the grasses Impotent obsolete. . ..

Outside is the sound of the surges As they toll at the river s bar,

Above them, triumphant, emerges The thunder of Britain s war

Her mates are living the story For which she was laid and built,

They are fighting or sinking in glory- She rots alone on the silt. ..

W r as it a breeze made her shiver, By the envious years entrapped,

In the fog at the mouth of the river, Unused, obsolete, scrapped?

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