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 50 WILFRED CAMPBELL

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.

— Wilfred Campbell.

Editorial Note: A son of Mr. Wilfred Campbell, the poet, is now fighting at St. Eloi. He is Capt. Basil Camp- bell, of the Second Pioneers.

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