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Thereafter of our pride let naught be said,
Saving on stone, inscribed with but one line:
Canada—Vimy Ridge—1917
Our hearts the tablets of a secret shrine:
Though henceforth we shall lift a higher head
Because of Vimy and its glorious dead.
Alfred Gordon
From "Vimy Ridge and New Poems"—By permission of the Author and of J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., Toronto