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 James B. Dollar-d

Your thoughts of him are like the thoughts of God; And ye who see God s wonders in the skies Must deep adore, when earth like falling ball Recedes, and past the glory-tinted hills, Past towers of cloudland and vast gulfs of fire The morning sun peers out before the dawn !

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IONG shall the deathless story live

Of Langemarck s bloody day, When fierce Germania s legions drave, Up-rolling westward, wave on wave, And swept the French defenders brave Rearward in gory fray.

The thundering guns their voices raised,

Attuned to deadly ire; The hurtling bomb and hissing shell Made war s deep diapason swell, Till all became a seething hell

Out-limned in sulphurous fire !

The German hordes in madness charged, And mighty was their force ;

Right through the lines they burst their way,

And dread the story of that day

Were not our heroes there, to stay

The Teuton s desperate course.

Then was it that young Canada

Displayed their mettle tried; With courage grand they meet that shock And like some stern, unyielding rock That scorns the tides, e en thus they mock The foeman s wrath and pride !

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