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25 December 2016

'Christmas, 1916' by Robert Stanley Weir

from After Ypres and Other Poems

Robert Stanley Weir

Toronto: Musson, 1917

'Christmas in Heaven' by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Arthur Stringer Pines for Christmas
Miss Machar's 'The Call of Christmas - 1914'

Christmas Verse by the Master of All Poets

03 June 2016

'After Ypres' by Robert Stanley Weir

The Gazette, 3 June 1916

One hundred year old verse by Montreal's Robert Stanley Weir from After Ypres and Other Poems (Toronto: Musson, 1917).

AFTER YPRES

June 3rd, 1916

Fight on, O Canada
Fight on!
Still arm thy valiant sons,
Thy best and bravest ones,
Still hangs our fate!
Loud the far battle calls,
Hasten ere Freedom falls!
The hour is great
Fight on!

Not for thyself alone,
For bone of thine own bone,
Thine own roof-tree!
Fight for thy Motherlands,
And for those other lands,
That they be free.
Fight on!

Strike, with free flag unfurl'd!
Strike, with the risen world!
Great battle wage!
So shall the brood unborn
At dawn of a new morn
Have heritage.
Fight on!

Fight on, O Canada,
Fight on!
For those who quiet lie
Beneath another sky:
Blood of thy blood;
(Let them not die)
Thy heroes battle-scarr'd
Thy heroes glory-starr'd,
Now with their God,
Fight on!