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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A SCHOOLMATE-KILLED IN ACTION, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poet's Biography
First Line: Gordan rand, we saw you last
Last Line: We salute you, -- gordan rand!
Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War
First Line: Gordan rand, we saw you last
Last Line: We salute you, -- gordan rand!
Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War
Gordan Rand, we saw you last
On a baseball field at play: --
Now the word is swiftly passed,
"Gordan died in France to-day!"
Gordan Rand, the boy we knew
Vanished when that message came: --
We shall always think of you
As a torch of living flame.
Ere our first few hundreds fell
It was your proud lot to fall
Underneath a German shell
In the vanguard of us all.
Gordan Rand, the men who die
As the pledge of hosts to come
Are a trumpet in the sky
And an ever-sounding drum.
We who still must wait and pray
For one chance to serve our land
Know what drum and trumpet say --
We salute you, -- Gordan Rand!
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