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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
Deathless
October 30, 1917.
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In the rugged limestone pasture
The old hard maple glows,
With burning tone & glory
Like the sun in all its sunset
In the rich Laurentian autumn,
The sunset of the year.
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At Passchendale I saw it
When my lifestream stopped its flowing,
As my life fell off in glory
In the sunset of the year.
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The old hard maple glowing
With dying fire and splendor,
Hid at her every leafstalk
The perfect end of spring
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At Passchendale I sleep not:
Only my leaves of autumn,
My autumn leaves, fell there
For the wondrous spring was in me,
And the life I gave at Passchendale
Hid the life of morrow year.
W.D Lighthall
69
