Of their free manhood's choice they crossed the sea
To save a stricken people from its foe.
They died for Justice—Justice owes them this:
That what they died for be not overthrown."
[A]Bernard Freeman Trotter
From "A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and Peace"—By permission of McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., Publishers, Toronto
WE WERE MEN OF THE FURROW
We were men of the furrow, men of the hammer and spade;
Men of the plain and the forest, children of commerce and trade;