(An Answer to Lt.-Col. McCrae)
We have kept faith, ye Flanders' dead,
Sleep well beneath those poppies red,
That mark your place.
The torch your dying hands did throw
We 've held it high before the foe,
And answered bitter blow for blow,
In Flanders' fields.
And where your heroes' blood was spilled
The guns are now forever stilled
And silent grown.
There is no moaning of the slain,
There is no cry of tortured pain,
And blood will never flow again
In Flanders' fields.
Forever holy in our sight
Shall be those crosses gleaming white,
That guard your sleep.
Rest you in peace, the task is done,
The fight you left us we have won,
And "Peace on Earth" has just begun
In Flanders now.
EDNA JACQUES
in the _Calgary Herald_
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[Frontispiece: Edwin Rowland Blashfield's poster, "Carry On," used in
the Fourth Liberty Loan.
This striking lithograph in the movement of its design expresses the
compelling force of the American spirit as it entered the World War.
The original oil painting has been purchased by The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City.]