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With noiseless footstep like the white robed snow	A
The old year with closed record steals away	B
Record of gladness suffering joy and woe	A
Of all that goes to make life's little day	B
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Here in this bright and pleasant little town	C
As everywhere a noiseless scythe hath swept	D
The bright the green the flow'ret all cut down	C
For heart ties severed loving hearts have wept	D
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And some are gone we very ill can spare	E
And some we gladly would have died to save	F
And the young blossom of the hearth so fair	E
But all alike have passed thy gates oh grave	F
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We see so many sable signs of woe	A
Each with mute voice memento mori saith	G
As if our town that erst has sparkled so	A
Were passing through the vale and shade of death	G
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But louder rumours from a far off world	H
Come to our valley where secure and free	I
With the sword sheathed the flag of battle furled	H
We sit in peace beneath our emblem tree	I
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At peace because the madly wicked men	J
Who sought to kindle flames of border war	K
Have in confusion failed yet once again	J
Their braggart plans dissolved in empty air	E
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In the Nor' West threat'nings of strife arose	L
The muttered thunders all have died away	B
Unstained by blood may sleep their mantling snows	L
Unmarred by civil strife their wintry day	B
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War clouds seemed o'er the hapless land to brood	H
The warning bugle sounded far abroad	H
Red River might have ran with kindred blood	H
But Manitoba heard the speaking God	H
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Our summer skies were clouded dark and low	A
'Twas not the blessed rain that bowed them down	C
But smoke wreaths rolling heavy huge and slow	A
And thick as rising from a conquered town	C
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And where rich crops and wealthy orchards fair	E
Spread to the sun rustled in breeze of morn	M
The fire passed through and left them black and bare	E
Rushing like Samson's foxes through the corn	M
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Then like a giant roused it onward came	N
With red arm reaching to the trees on high	O
Till the whole landscape in one sheet of flame	N
Glowed like a furnace 'neath a brazen sky	O
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O'er many a hearth red burning ruin swept	H
Till people fancied 'twas a flaming world	H
All labour gained and prudent care had kept	H
And precious life were in one ruin hurled	H
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But as the fire fast spread 'tis sweet to know	A
So loving kindness and sweet pity ran	P
This wide spread wail of human want and woe	A
Served to bring out the brotherhood of man	P
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Here on the lovely pine fringed Allumette	H
We hear the distant echoes of the jar	Q
Where Galile pluck and Teuton drill have met	H
In the long shock of cruel murderous war	K
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We only read of fields heaped high with slain	R
Of vineyards flooded red but not with wine	S
Of writhing heaps of groaning anguished pain	R
Of wounded carted off in endless line	S
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We read of all the stern eyed pomp of war	K
The list of wounded and the number slain	R
But know not what war's desolations are	Q
How much one battle costs of human pain	R
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All the sweet homes beneath the chestnut trees	T
Blackened and waste the hearth light quenched in gore	K
What hecatombs of human agonies	T
Are laid war's demon chariot wheels before	K
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When a few deaths so shadow a whole place	U
Let us but think of that beleaguered town	C
Where famine's blackness sits in every face	U
War cutting thousands want ten thousands down	C
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And France is one great grave her native clay	B
Top dressed with human flesh and steeped in blood	H
Hushed are the sounds of little ones at play	B
And blackened wastes where pleasant hamlets stood	H
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In spots the grain will yet grow rank and strong	V
Over brave hearts that conquered as they fell	W
Falling left hearts to sorrow for them long	V
By the swift Rhine or by the blue Moselle	W
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When will the nations learn to war no more	K
Nor with red hands adore the God of peace	X
O Thou most merciful whom we adore	K
Bid this unnecessary war to cease	X
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And look upon our country young and strong	V
With prospects of a future great and grand	H
Grant us that Right still triumph over Wrong	V
That Righteousness exalt and bless the land	H
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That here where smiling peace and plenty reign	R
Beneath the glory of unclouded skies	Y
A Nation that shall know no honour stain	R
Girt by sons pure and peaceful shall arise	Y
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O Canada our own beloved land	H
Land of free homes and hearts uncowed by fear	Z
Refuge of many be it thine to stand	H
Foremost among the nations each New Year	Z

Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)

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