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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
Immortality
They are not dead, the soldier and the sailor,
Fallen for Freedom's sake;
They merely sleep with faces that are paler
Until they wake.
—
They will not weep, the mothers, in the years
The future will decree;
For they have died that the battles and the tears
Should cease to be.
—
They will not die, the victorious and the slain,
Sleeping in foreign soil,
They gave their lives, but to the world is the gain
Of their sad toil.
—
They are not dead, the soldier and the sailor,
Fallen for Freedom’s sake;
They merely sleep with faces that are paler
Until they wake.
—
Arthur S. Bourinot.
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