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TO
THE OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE
FIRST CANADIAN DIVISION, C.E.F.
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“THE
UNBROKEN LINE.”
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,
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
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
Are one great army still, living
and dead.
F.G.S.
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