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140 Wonderful battles have shaken this world,

Since the Dawn-God overthrew Dis;

Wonderful struggles of right against wrong,

Sung in the rhymes of the world's great song,

But never a greater than this.

Bannockburn, Inkerman, Balaclava,

Marathon's god-like stand

But never a more heroic deed,

And never a greater warrior breed,

In any warman's land.

This is the ballad of Langemarck,

A story of glory and might;

Of the vast Hun horde, and Canada's part

In the great, grim fight. —