| George Herbert Clarke, ed. (1873–1953). A Treasury of War Poetry. 1917. |
| |
| 36. Canada to England |
| | | By Marjorie L. C. Pickthall |
| |
| |
| GREAT names of thy great captains gone before | |
| Beat with our blood, who have that blood of thee: | |
| Raleigh and Grenville, Wolfe, and all the free | |
| Fine souls who dared to front a world in war. | |
| Such only may outreach the envious years | 5 |
| Where feebler crowns and fainter stars remove, | |
| Nurtured in one remembrance and one love | |
| Too high for passion and too stern for tears. | |
| |
| O little isle our fathers held for home, | |
| Not, not alone thy standards and thy hosts | 10 |
| Lead where thy sons shall follow, Mother Land: | |
| Quick as the north wind, ardent as the foam, | |
| Behold, behold the invulnerable ghosts | |
| Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. | |
| |
|
|
|
