LEST WE FORGET

In honour of the men and women who served with Canada’s Armed Forces and the Red Cross, we offer the following poems by Helen I. Stetson.

Remembrance

Soldiers of old Like leaves falling down Out on the Battlefields Their youth forever gone Their glory lives on So rest on brave souls Your peace dearly won. The poppies will bloom And fade in the fall From your graves shine the glory You’ve given your all.

Women of the Red Cross - 1916

The bullets whine so far away as the little circle sews and prays for husbands and sons across the sea fighting and dying senselessly.

God speed them home, said every sigh as days then months limped slowly by. It mattered not, nor did they know to whom the fruits of their toil would go.

For king and country? Home and hearth? Men of high or lowly birth? They set their shoulders to the task and saw their loved ones home at last.

Willing hands are now at peace that worked and prayed for war to cease.

They too served, they fought the foe The Red Cross Ladies of long ago.

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