Excerpt from The Fighting Men of Canada There's a hush along the river where the tide goes out to sea, And a song that echoes softly to the shore, For the boats have set to seaward, creeping downward in the lee, And a grim old dog of war leads on before. And we sing a song of seamen As we pass the answering hill, We are Britons, we are freemen, And we'll live as freemen still l Myriad-mouthed they hail our coming, break in thunders of applause, 'tis the Lion Mother's welcome to her brood! They have found us worthy kinsmen, bred to serve a worthy cause, Men of British nerve and born of British blood. But the Captain's eye is leering. And the word is Do your bit! There'll be time enough for cheering When the guns begin to spiti. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.