John Stuart Thomson
Author of Estabelle and Other Verse, Day s Song Eulalive The Chinese, China Revolutioned etc. Born in Montreal^ in 1872, and educated in local schools and at McGill University..- Has travelled extensively. An authority on Far Eastern questions. Lives in Nezv Jersey, U.S.A.
THE CHARGE OF THE CANADIAN CAVALRY AT MOREUIL, FRANCE
��T
��HERE was champing of bits, When the trumpets blew loud
For a charge on the pits ;
For a dash through the cloud
Of gray smoke on the field.
Not a man of us there But had children to shield,
Or a home in his care.
But the ring of the steel Bad our courage leap high;
And the trumpets last peal Made it glorious to die.
With a wheel to the right, We first rode four abreast,
Till the foe came in sight.
Ye that watched ! tell the rest.
Our good chargers we spurred, And our keen blades rang true ;
Round our heads the shells whirred, As we cut our way through.
Though they fought round their guns. Till their sword hilts grew hot ;
(And a foeman who runs Is a dog to be shot)
�� �
