<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Silent Army</h1><p class="byline"> IAN ADANAC <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN The Montreal Daily Star</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">NO bugle is blown, no roll of drums, </p><p class="line">No sound of an army marching. </p><p class="line">No banners wave high, no battle--cry </p><p class="line">Comes from the war-worn fields where they lie, </p><p class="line">The blue sky overarching </p><p class="line">The call sounds clearer than the bugle call '</p><p class="line">From this silent, dreamless army.</p><p class="line">No cowards were we, when we heard the call, </p><p class="line">For freedom we grudged not to give our all," </p><p class="line">Is the call from the silent army.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Hushed and quiet and still they lie, </p><p class="line">This silent, dreamless army, </p><p class="line">While living comrades spring to their side, </p><p class="line">And the bugle-call and the battle-cry</p><p class="line">Are heard as dreamer and dreamless lie </p><p class="line">Under the stars of the arching sky, </p><p class="line">The men who have heard from the men who have die </p><p class="line">The call of the silent army. </p></div></body></html> · Great War