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Voices of Victory VOICES OF VICTORY Representative Poetry of Canada in War-time RI'/>rIJr/II(t iIJII 0/ J f er/a/ Cr(/{"i olls/y Prese llter/t o t lt C' F irst Pri ze­ ll'IIl/ll'r by /lis /~· .\'rr' / fr. II ("J' t lt e Gf!Verll or -G£' II{' ra/ 0/ CaII ar/a, P at ro ll 0/ tlte C(//IfIr/iall A IItlt or s' Assoriatioll . TORONTO THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED 1941 FOREWORD Poetry, throughout the ages, has been a supreme art of ex­ pression. It has made articulate the thoughts, feelings and as­ pirations of the human race. In travail and sorrow, as in peace Copyright, Canada, 1941 and exaltation, it has bespoken both the mind and the soul. by This volume, Voices of Victory, was conceived and brought to fruition that it might make utterance for this Dominion. THE MACMILLAN CoMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED Two objectives have been paramount: one, to contribute what­ ever the proceeds from its sales may be, to the Canadian Red Cross British Bomb Victims' Fund; the other, to let the All rights reserved poetic genius of Canada and of the Canadian people sound a spiritual challenge to the brutality of enemy despots and tyrants. "Where goes a song, go es a spirit that no power of darkness can enslave!" That these purposes might be accomplished, the Poetry Group of Toronto Branch, Canadian Authors' Association, sponsored a Dominion-wide poetry competition. His Excellency the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of Canada and Patron of the Canadian Authors' Association, graciously donated a beautiful silver medal for presentation to the first prize-winner. Prizes were donated by Mr. R. Y. Eaton, Sir William Mulock and the Poetry Group of Toronto for the three best poems submitted. Honourable Mention in the form of publication in this volume was accorded to twenty other entries adjudged next in order of merit. The contest recorded the surprising total of 766 entries from every province and the Territories. The judges were chosen not only for their literary discern­ ment, but, also, because of their location geographically. Out­ Printed in Canada standing authors and critics have given generously of their time and experience to assist in the advancement of this artistic and patriotic enterprise. Canadian poets who are widely recognized as established v craftsmen were invited to contribute to this collection. Their response was ready and cordial. Members of the Poetry Group who originated the idea and assumed responsibility for publication of the volume are repre­ sented by poems selected by three Toronto judges. The result of this entire effort is the issuance to the public of a representative book of contemporary Canadian poetry com­ CONTENTS memorative of this momentous hour. Pag, Foreword . v Sir Charles G. D. Roberts Canada Speaks of Britain Xl First Prize Agnes Aston Hill Recompense 1 Second Prize Isabel McFadden Canadian Crusade 2 Third Prize Carol Coates Cassidy Chosen of Men 4 Honourable Mention John E. Nixon Impromptu Concert 9 Gloria Lauriston . Let No Man Fear the Night 10 Leo Cox On a Letter from Grenfell 11 Hermia H. Fraser French Tapestry 13 G. Joy Tranter . Little Things . 15 John V. Hicks Unshaken. 17 Margaret Complin Per Ardua ad Astra 18 Rita Adams. Spring Fever . 19 Laura Thompson The Bonnie Scarf 21 Robina Monkman Sacrifice 22 M. Fahrin Prairie Sailors 23 Mary E. McCullough For a Dead Soldier 24 Margaret Gould . Tintagel 25 Helen E. Ross Resurrection 26 Francis William Gray Out of the Miry Clay 27' Norma Smith The White Wolf 29 Helen Ball Nostalgia . 31 Charles M. Nixon The Frederickhouse 32 Mentie du Val . Reverie of a Soldier 34 ]. W rexford Watson Reveille 35 vi Vll CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN POEMS Lloyd Roberts 'Tis Only Man Who Wars 83 Theodore Goodridge Roberts They Sho·ut in my Blood . 85 "Marseillaise" for a Penny Nathaniel A. Benson Helen Caister Robinson Lovely Things 86 Flute. 39 Duncan Campbell Scott On Hearing Bach's "Sheep Arthur S. Bourinot Sleeping Now in Coventry 40 May Safely Graze" 87 Audrey Alexandra Brown Withdrawal from Crete 42 Frederick George Scott The Mother . 88 Charles Bruce . Personal Note. 44 A. M. Stephen The Forgotten Kingdom 89 Raymond Card . Anthem for Canada 46 Arthur Stringer . Taps at Twilight . 90 Sara E. Carsley. Song in the Night . 47 Robert Watson . The Wee Broon Man. 91 George Herbert Clarke Brackley Beach . 49 Florence Westacott The Lady of Coventry . 93 Mary Elizabeth Colman For This Freedom Too . 50 Clement Wood A Ballade of Canada and Gordon Dagger . The British . 52 England 94 Elizabeth Donaldson A Parrot's Quill. 53 Afterword. 95 Alice Ann Dorey A Grecian Goddess M oums 54 John M. Elson . Sonnet Sequence . 55 A. Marion Fox . W hat Price War? . 56 John Murray Gibbon Down V al1couver Way 57 Norah Godfrey . French Calladian Girl 58 Katherine Hale . The Children's Ship 59 Frances Hanson. Livil1g Clay . 61 Verna Loveday Harden Garden of the Ursuline Convent, Quebec City 62 Dorothy C. Herriman Market News. 64 Edna Jaques . The Lord of London 65 Marie! Jenkins In Joseph's Garden 66 Leo Kennedy To the Eagles (1937) 67 Amabel King "Their Finest Hour" 68 Watson Kirkconnell September, 1939 70 Kenneth Leslie . Ivan and John 71 William Douw Lighthall My England!. 72 Dorothy Livesay . The Child Looks Out 74 Sister Maura . Mary's Day 75 Wilson MacDonald Exit 76 Tom MacInnes . Ballade of Friends. 78 S. Morgan-Powell Far Temples Calling 79 Kathryn Munro . Thy Spirit is a Silence 80 E. J. Pratt. Dunkirk 81 Hilda M. Ridley Sabine 82 Vlll IX CANADA SPEAKS OF BRITAIN This is that bastioned rock where dwell the Free, That citadel against whose front in vain Storm up the mad assaults of air and sea To shatter down in flaming wreck again. This, this is Britain, bulwark of o·ur breed, Our one sure shield against the hordes of hate. Smite her, and w e are smitten,' wound her, w e bleed. Yet firm she stands and fears no thrust of fate. Stands she, and shall,'-but not by guns alone, And ships and planes and ramparts. Her own soul That knows neither to bend nor break,-her own Will, hammered to temper,-keeps her whole. She calls. And we will answer to our last breath.­ Make light of sacrifice, and jest with Death. August 19, 1940 CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS This poem is reprinted by courtesy of The Ryerson Press. Xl VOICES OF VICTORY Xlll RECOMPENSE Where lovely Avon winds her rippling train, Jewelled with yellow lilies, through the lush Forget-me-not fringed banks-where the refrain Of silver-throated lark and misselthrush Enchanted you-you will not walk again. You will not see the fires of sunset burn, And fade at even fall, or hear again The nightingale's ethereal nocturne; And golden Junes will star the riverain With fragrant flowers-but you will not return. You will not see again the faery foam , Of blackthorn blossom breaking, when the Spring Comes round again-and, in the falling gloam Your feet no more will press the purple ling That diadems the dear, green hills of home. But, though your singing heart will never leap With ecstacy again, in England's dower Of deathless loveliness-this thought I keep-­ You shared the glory of her greatest hour Before your eyes were shuttered in long sleep. AGNES ASTON HILL First Prize I chide the squirrels where they laze THE BONNIE SCARF Awaiting warmer, settled, days; The bonnie scarf you knit for me And to the cows now grown so sleek Another lad may wear; I promise buttercups next week. The bonnie home that was our dream Another lad may share. If farmers dare forecast the weather, My trick is rain and shine together: The tears may fall a little while, Dear lass, I know you care, For I am April's child who first But tears will fail to ease the load Hung rainbow ribbons in the sky, That smiles can help you bear. And left a cuckoo in each hurst To mark the wanton lovers by. The world will go on turning, lass, Though your lad is not there: RITA ADAMS The bonnie scarf you knit for me Another lad may wear. LAURA THOMPSON 20 21 SACRIFICE PRAIRIE SAILORS What shall we give as hostages to fate, Strong with the vim of the prairie sun, Now that our dreams are dust upon the wind They muster to man the ships. And ash upon the smouldering pyres of hate? Watch them swinging along the quay, What shall we give whose searching hands can find Broad of shoulder, slender of hips, No token of delight in this black dawn, The quest of the unknown trail in their eyes, No manna that the soul may feed upon? And cowboy songs on their lips. What shall we lay upon the altar-stone The prairie schooner broke the wave Who are stripped bare of all the things we knew,­ Of the virgin buffalo grass, Laughter, and love, and joyous song are flown And left in its wake a sea of gold Far down the aisles of conflict, and the rue To the rim of the sky, where cloud-fleets mass. Grows thick about our feet and overhead These were the oceans the plainsmen knew; The vultures drone above the newly dead, To mightier seas they pass. Flame on the hills and flame within the vales, To mightier seas they have pledged their word And death within the traitor kiss of spring, Till the trails of these are free; Blood on the summer paths, the winter trails, The grey destroyers plow the foam And on the silken throat, the downy wing, For a harvest of peace and liberty.
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