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    Songs of Heroic Days
    Songs of Heroic Days
    Songs of Heroic Days
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    Songs of Heroic Days

    By Thomas O'Hagan

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Songs of Heroic Days - Thomas O'Hagan

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Songs of Heroic Days, by Thomas O'Hagan

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Songs of Heroic Days

      Author: Thomas O'Hagan

      Release Date: August 21, 2011 [EBook #37154]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF HEROIC DAYS ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      SONGS OF HEROIC DAYS

      By

      THOMAS O'HAGAN

      Author of

      A Gate of Flowers

      In Dreamland

      Songs of the Settlement

      In the Heart of the Meadow

      and Others

      Toronto:

      WILLIAM BRIGGS

      1916

      Copyright, Canada, 1916

      by Thomas O'Hagan

      TO THE BRAVE CANADIAN HEARTS

      THAT BEAT AND BATTLE FOR THE

      CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND THE SAFETY

      OF THE EMPIRE.

      PREFACE

      Nearly all these Poems have appeared during the past year in the columns of the Globe and the Mail and Empire of Toronto, and the Free Press of Detroit, Michigan.

      When the Author read from his poems last winter before the Women's Press Club of Toronto one of its members suggested that an engrossed and illuminated copy of the poem, I Take Off My Hat to Albert, be presented to His Majesty, King Albert of Belgium. This was done through the kind offices and courtesy of Mr. Goor, the Belgian Consul-General at Ottawa.

      His Majesty's gracious letter of acceptance, which the reader will find on another page, is indeed a Royal Foreword to these poetic blossoms of a piteous though heroic time.

      THOMAS O'HAGAN

      January 20th, 1916.

      Contents

      Letter From the King of Belgium

      Translation

      I Take Off My Hat to Albert

      The Kaiser's Favorite Poems

      Louvain

      The Kaiser's Bhoys

      Mothers

      In the Trenches

      The Christ-Child

      God's New Year's Gift

      Trouble in the Louvre

      Bobs of Kandahar

      Song of the Zeppelin

      Sock it to 'Em

      Langemarck

      The Bugle

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