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Frederick
George Scott
COLLECTED
POEMS
The
Unbroken Line
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We who have trod the borderlands of death
Where courage high walks
hand in hand with fear,
Shall we not hearken what the spirit saith,
“All ye were brothers
there, be brothers here”?
We who have struggled through the baffling night
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Where
men were men and every man divine,
While round us brave hearts perished for the right,
By chaliced shell-holes
stained with life’s rich wine,
Let us not lose the exalted love which came
From comradeship with
danger and the joy
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Of
strong souls kindled into living flame
By one supreme desire, one
high employ.
Let us draw closer in these narrower years,
Before us still the eternal
visions spread;
We, who outmastered death and all its fears,
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one great army still—living and dead. [Page
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