The Great War As I Saw It. Frederick George Scott
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Frederick George Scott
The Great War As I Saw It
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664599599
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TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FIRST CANADIAN DIVISION, C.E.F.
TO
THE OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE
FIRST CANADIAN DIVISION, C.E.F.
| "THE UNBROKEN LINE." |
| We who have trod the borderlands of death, Where courage high walks hand in hand with fear, Shall we not hearken what the Spirit saith, "All ye were brothers there, be brothers here?" We who have struggled through the baffling night, Where men were men and every man divine, While round us brave hearts perished for the right By chaliced shell-holes stained with life's rich wine. Let us not lose the exalted love which came From comradeship with danger and the joy Of strong souls kindled into living flame By one supreme desire, one high employ. Let us draw closer in these narrower years, Before us still the eternal visions spread; We who outmastered death and all its fears Are one great army still, living and dead. F. G. S. |
FOREWORD
It is with great pleasure I accede to the request of Canon Scott to write a foreword to his book.
I first heard of my friend and comrade after the second battle of Ypres when he accompanied his beloved Canadians to Bethune after their glorious stand in that poisonous gap—which in my own mind he immortalised in verse:—
O England of our fathers, and England of our sons,
Above the roar of battling hosts, the thunder of the guns,
A mother's voice was calling us, we heard it oversea,
The blood which thou didst give us, is the blood we spill for thee.
Little did I think