PREFACE
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.
Contents
[Letter From the King of Belgium]
[Translation]
[I Take Off My Hat to Albert]
[The Kaiser's Favorite Poems]
[Louvain]
[The Kaiser's Bhoys]
[Mothers]
[In the Trenches]
[The Christ-Child]
[God's New Year's Gift]
[Trouble in the Louvre]
["Bobs" of Kandahar]
[Song of the Zeppelin]
["Sock it to 'Em"]
[Langemarck]
[The Bugle Call]
[His Mission]
[Achilles' Tomb]
[The Chrism of Kings]
[Tipperary]
[Gather the Harvest]
[The Kaiser's "Place in the Sun"]