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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