| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Between the Battles | | By Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) |
| | | LET us bury him here, | |
| Where the maples are red! | |
| He is dead, | |
| And he died thanking God that he fell with the fall of the leaf and the year. | |
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| Where the hillside is sheer, | 5 |
| Let it echo our tread | |
| Who he led; | |
| Let us follow as gladly as ever we followed who never knew fear. | |
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| Ere he died, they had fled; | |
| Yet they heard his last cheer | 10 |
| Ringing clear,— | |
| When we lifted him up, he would fain have pursued, but grew dizzy instead. | |
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| Break his sword and his spear! | |
| Let this last prayer be said | |
| By the bed | 15 |
| We have made underneath the wet wind in the maple trees moaning so drear:— | |
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| ‘O Lord God, by the red | |
| Sullen end of the year | |
| That is here, | |
| We beseech Thee to guide us and strengthen our swords till his slayers be dead!’ | 20 | | | |
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