Songs of Heroic Days

SONGS OF HEROIC DAYS
THOMAS O'HAGAN
Author of A Gate of Flowers In Dreamland Songs of the Settlement In the Heart of the Meadow and Others
Toronto: WILLIAM BRIGGS 1916
Copyright, Canada, 1916 by Thomas O'Hagan
TO THE BRAVE CANADIAN HEARTS THAT BEAT AND BATTLE FOR THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND THE SAFETY OF THE EMPIRE.
Nearly all these Poems have appeared during the past year in the columns of the Globe and the Mail and Empire of Toronto, and the Free Press of Detroit, Michigan.
When the Author read from his poems last winter before the Women's Press Club of Toronto one of its members suggested that an engrossed and illuminated copy of the poem, I Take Off My Hat to Albert, be presented to His Majesty, King Albert of Belgium. This was done through the kind offices and courtesy of Mr. Goor, the Belgian Consul-General at Ottawa.
His Majesty's gracious letter of acceptance, which the reader will find on another page, is indeed a Royal Foreword to these poetic blossoms of a piteous though heroic time.
THOMAS O'HAGAN January 20th, 1916.
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