<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Canada to England</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Great</span> names of thy great captains gone before</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Beat with our blood, who have that blood of thee:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Raleigh and Grenville, Wolfe, and all the free</p><p class="line">Fine souls who dared to front a world in war.</p><p class="line">Such only may outreach the envious years</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where feebler crowns and fainter stars remove,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Nurtured in one remembrance and one love</p><p class="line">Too high for passion and too stern for tears.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O little isle our fathers held for home,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Not, not alone thy standards and thy hosts</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Lead where thy sons shall follow, Mother Land:</p><p class="line">Quick as the north wind, ardent as the foam,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Behold, behold the invulnerable ghosts</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Of all past greatnesses about thee stand.</p></div><p class="byline">Marjorie L. C. Pickthall</p></body></html> · Great War