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Carry On! - Virna Sheard
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Title: Carry On!
Author: Virna Sheard
Release Date: July 4, 2011 [EBook #36618]
Language: English
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CARRY ON!
By VIRNA SHEARD
PUBLISHED UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED
PATRONAGE OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER
OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
EMPIRE IN AID OF THE
RED CROSS
TORONTO:
WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER, LIMITED
1917
COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1917
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We acknowledge with thanks the kindness of The Globe, Toronto, for permission to use Carry On, The Young Knights, The Watcher, October Goes, Dreams, The Cry, A War Chant, To One Who Sleeps, The Requiem and The Lament, to Saturday Night, Toronto, for permission to use Before the Dawn, and to The Canadian Magazine for permission to use When Jonquils Blow. The other poems have not hitherto been published.
CONTENTS
Carry On
The Young Knights
The Shells
The Watcher
October Goes
Dreams
Before the Dawn
Crosses
The Cry
A War Chant
When Jonquils Blow
To One Who Sleeps
The Sea
Comrades
Requiem
Lament
CARRY ON!
That all freedom may abide
Carry on!
For the brave who fought and died,
Carry on!
England's flag so long adored
Is the banner of the Lord—
His the cannon—His the sword—
Carry on,
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