Excerpt from Canadian Poems of the Great War More and more are the poets realizing that the quality of beauty is universal; and hence that there is nothing in this subjective-objective world, outside the pale of artistic expression. More and more are they seeking themes of intense human interest, and striving for climaxes of spiritual beauty. To me, the spirit and content of an inspired poem is potential form; and in its natural verbal expression, of necessity organic. The inspiration shapes and perfects the form. This is why I regard the actual form as only, at most, equal in importance to what is expressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Canadian Poets of the Great War Up to the hills, where the winds restore us, Clearing our eyes to the beauty before us; Earth with the glory of life on her breast, Earth with the gleam of her cities and streams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Great War: And Other Poems Hail, Hail, the coming of the golden day, Bright vision of the distant past, When warring sons of God shall stay The tide of War, and Peace shall reign at last. Hail, Hail, the vision of the golden years, When they who mourn shall comfort find In One who wipes away all tears, And speaks in words so wonderfully kind. If sons who fought shall ever more inherit (those sons whose eyes were blind with hate) The blessing for the poor in Spirit All shall be well, tho' homes are desolate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Canadian Twilight, and Other Poems of War and of Peace Bernard Freeman Trotter was killed in action in F rance'on May 7th, 1917. By his early death - he was only twenty-six - Canada lost a brave soldier and one of the most promising of her younger poets. Those who knew him best may be pardoned if they link him in' their thought with Rupert Brooke and Alan Seeger. As the former died for England in the Aegean, and the latter, an American, gave his life for France at the Somme, so Bernard Trotter laid himself on the altar of heroic and unselfish sacrifice for his native land and the sacred cause for which the Empire fights. Without claiming for him equality with either of (these inheritors of unfulfilled renown in respect of promise or achievement, one my justly say that, like them, he was a true poet, dowered with love of beauty and a quick sense of her manifold ap paritions, and possessed of a native gift for the expres sion of poetic thought and feeling in musical rhythms. Cut ope in his youthful prime he has left only a slender sheaf of verse, but enough to prove that he had the authentic singing note of the born poet. The purpose of the present 'writer, however, is not to give a critical estimate of his poetry, but, with the sympathy the sad circumstances manifestly demand, to record the facts of his life and death and to point out the influences that shaped his character and called forth his powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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