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This is the ballad of Langemarck	A
A story of glory and might	B
Of the vast Hun horde and Canada s part	C
In the great grim fight	B
	-
It was April fair on the Flanders Fields	D
But the dreadest April then	E
That ever the years in their fateful flight	B
Had brought to this world of men	E
	-
North and east a monster wall	F
The mighty Hun ranks lay	G
With fort on fort and iron ringed trench	H
Menacing grim and gray	G
	-
And south and west like a serpent of fire	I
Serried the British lines	J
And in between the dying and dead	K
And the stench of blood and the trampled mud	L
On the fair sweet Belgian vines	J
	-
And far to the eastward harnessed and taut	M
Like a scimitar shining and keen	N
Gleaming out of that ominous gloom	O
Old France s hosts were seen	N
	-
When out of the grim Hun lines one night	B
There rolled a sinister smoke	A
A strange weird cloud like a pale green shroud	P
And death lurked in its cloak	A
	-
On a fiend like wind it curled along	A
Over the brave French ranks	Q
Like a monster tree its vapours spread	K
In hideous burning banks	Q
Of poisonous fumes that scorched the night	B
With their sulphurous demon danks	Q
	-
And men went mad with horror and fled	K
From that terrible strangling death	R
That seemed to sear both body and soul	S
With its baleful flaming breath	R
	-
Till even the little dark men of the south	T
Who feared neither God nor man	U
Those fierce wild fighters of Afric s steppes	V
Broke their battalions and ran	U
	-
Ran as they never had run before	W
Gasping and fainting for breath	R
For they knew t was no human foe that slew	X
And that hideous smoke meant death	R
	-
Then red in the reek of that evil cloud	P
The Hun swept over the plain	Y
And the murderer s dirk did its monster work	A
Mid the scythe like shrapnel rain	Y
	-
Till it seemed that at last the brute Hun hordes	Z
Had broken that wall of steel	A2
And that soon through this breach in the freeman s dyke	A
His trampling hosts would wheel	A2
	-
And sweep to the south in ravaging might	B
And Europe s peoples again	E
Be trodden under the tyrant s heel	A2
Like herds in the Prussian pen	E
	-
But in that line on the British right	B
There massed a corps amain	E
Of men who hailed from a far west land	B2
Of mountain and forest and plain	E
	-
Men new to war and its dreadest deeds	C2
But noble and staunch and true	X
Men of the open East and West	D2
Brew of old Britain s brew	X
	-
These were the men out there that night	B
When Hell loomed close ahead	K
Who saw that pitiful hideous rout	E2
And breathed those gases dread	K
While some went under and some went mad	F2
But never a man there fled	K
	-
For the word was Canada theirs to fight	B
And keep on fighting still	G2
Britain said fight and fight they would	H2
Though the Devil himself in sulphurous mood	I2
Came over that hideous hill	G2
	-
Yea stubborn they stood that hero band	B2
Where no soul hoped to live	J2
For five gainst eighty thousand men	E
Were hopeless odds to give	K2
	-
Yea fought they on T was Friday eve	L2
When that demon gas drove down	E
T was Saturday eve that saw them still	G2
Grimly holding their own	E
	-
Sunday Monday saw them yet	M2
A steadily lessening band	B2
With no surrender in their hearts	N2
But the dream of a far off land	B2
	-
Where mother and sister and love would weep	O2
For the hushed heart lying still	G2
But never a thought but to do their part	C
And work the Empire s will	G2
	-
Ringed round hemmed in and back to back	A
They fought there under the dark	A
And won for Empire God and Right	B
At grim red Langemarck	A
	-
Wonderful battles have shaken this world	P2
Since the Dawn God overthrew Dis	Q2
Wonderful struggles of right against wrong	A
Sung in the rhymes of the world s great song	A
But never a greater than this	Q2
	-
Bannockburn Inkerman Balaclava	L2
Marathon s godlike stand	B2
But never a more heroic deed	R2
And never a greater warrior breed	R2
In any war man s land	B2
	-
This is the ballad of Langemarck	A
A story of glory and might	B
Of the vast Hun horde and Canada s part	C
In the great grim fight	B

William Wilfred Campbell

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