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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poet's Biography
First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast
Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter.
Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War
First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast
Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter.
Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War
CHEER oh, comrades, we can bide the blast
And face the gloom until it shall grow lighter.
What though one Christmas should be overcast,
If duty done makes all the others brighter.
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