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"These held ty high tradition in 'their• keeping,
This IIor of all a:Nation's Youth and Pride;
And safe they old it .stilflii their htsl sleeping,
Who heard thy call, and answered 14- -and died:"
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CLINTON'S HONOR ROLL
We have gathered together for this
page today the names of all_ the
Clinton soldiers, with the portraits
of all, as far 'as could be obtained,
whose homes are still here, who have
made the supreme sacrifice for King
\.nd Country, Freedom and Democ-
racy.
• There are in all thirty-three, most
of whom enlisted here, going over-
seas with the thirty=third and one
hundred and sixty-first battalions.'' A'
few enlisted at other points but "a11
are Clinton boys, and we have not
gene outside of the town at all,
though had it been possible we should
leave, liked to take in all the sur
rounding townships.
Sonie were mere boys, still in their
teens When the call came they were
• looking, out, upon life with clear eyes,
hopeful and unafraid. Others were a
WW1 older and, having prepared for
their •life's work, had already enter-
ed into it. Still others,. a few, were
more advanced in years and' wore
already bearing life's burdens. But
there was nohesitation when the
call came, they answered, the clear
eyed, fresh faced boy, and the man of
mature years, and one by one they
gave up, uncomplainingly, what all
men count most dear..
An officer who had visited a cem-
etery an'France in order to erect a
cross over the grave of a young
comrade afterwards wrote to the
mother :
"I visited two cemeter.es whose
soil contains the richest remains
time has ever laid to rust in . any
land. Never lived a 'finer body of
heros and gentlemen than those Can-
adian dead who lie here. They have
paid the price of those miles of
bleak, warscarredterritory. They
have paid the price tor lustre which
has comp back to the faded eyes of
the liberated French, who in these
northern towns have been the slaves
of Germany for four years and 'great-
er love hath no -man than this.' "
Canada will never forget, Clinton
will never forget, her noble band of
fallen heros.
A Bishop's Answer
Bishop Matt. S. Hughes of Port-
land,. Oregon, has lost a son, killed
in action, "Somewhere in France."
This gives greater significance to a
poem he has just. written in answer
to one written by Edwin Markham
and entitled; "Markham's Question,"
' wiiicli' follows
•!'01h,, mother will you longer • give
your sons
To feed the awful hunger of the guns?
'Wllut is the worth of all these battle.
drums
1f from the field the loved one never
comes ?
What are the loud hosannas to the.
• brave
If all yourshare is some forgotten
grave ?"
The Bishop's word is as follows
"God gave my son in trust to me ;
Christ died for him and. he should be
A man for Christ, • He is His own
And God's and Man's ;• not Mine
alone,
He was not mine to give. He gave
Himself that ho might help to save
All that Christians should -revere,
All that enlightened men, hold dear.
To feed the guns ? Oh, torpid soul
Awake and see life as a whole..
When freedom, honor, justice, right
Were; threatened by the despot's
• 'night
With heart aflame and soul alight
He bravely went for God to fight
Against base savages whose pride
The laws of God and man doffed ;
Who maidens pure and sweet defiled.
He did not go to `feed the guns,'
He wont to save from ruthless Huns
IIis home and country,and to bo
A guardian of democracy.
What if he does not come ? yob Say.
Ali, well, my sky would be more gray,
But through the clouds\ the sun would
shine,
And vital memories he mine.
God's test of manhood is, I know,
Not 'Will he come?' but, 'Did he go?'
And yet the went, with purpose high
To eight for peace and. overthrow
The plan 'of Christ's relentless foe.
Ho dreaded not the battlefield ;
Ho went to make fierce vandals yield.
If he comes not again to mo •
I shall 'be sad, but not that he
Went like a man, a hero true,
His part unselfishly to do'
My heart will feel unexultant pride
That for humanity.•he died.
'Forgotten grave.' This selfish plea
Vox though his grave I may not` see,
My\ boy.will neer forgottenlbe ;
My real don can never die
'Tis but his body that may lie ..
In foreign land and I shall keep
Remembrance fond, forever, deep
Within my heart of my, true son
Because .of triumphal that he won.
'It matters not where some men
live,'
If my dear son his life must give,:
Hosannas I will sing for .him
E'en though my eyes with tears aro
dim ;
And when the gallant war is over,.
When
IIis gallant comrades conte again,
I'll cheer them as they're marching
by,
Rejoicing that they did not die ;u,
And when his vacant place I see,
My heart will bound with) joy ,that he
Was trine so long --my fine young
son—
And cheer for him, whose work la
done."
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* . Short days ago
We greeted dawn, saw sunset's glow,
Loved and were loved,and now we He
In Flanders fields."
LIEUT. J, KNOX MAIR
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