Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON


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IN CANADA, by                    
First Line: You are dead
Last Line: And you are dead.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise


YOU are dead.
The songs of birds are still as sweet,
The vagrant blue blossoms smile in the wheat
Cheerily, as when you were here
Long ago. Nay, but a year
Has passed. A year of days
Uncertain, long and drear always
Save for the hope that you would come
When peace stilled cannon, hushed the drum
Will peace come now to stop the shed
Of blood and tears, now you are dead?

You are dead.
Lilies nod in the prairie hay,
The wandering woodbines beckon gay,
The sky above is azure blue,
The sun gleams gold, as the day that you
Enlisted. Then war meant
A cross of honor; and I sent
You gladly. You won the cross
And died. What is my loss?
A trifling toll to the God of War,
And hate and Strife thrive as before,
And you are dead.





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