This poem was written by W.J. Mark of Elmvale and published in The Midland Free Press (Vol LVII, No 46, page 6) of November 16, 1938. TWENTY YEARS AGO Do you remember twenty years ago, The tumult and the shouting of our race; The boisterous glad music and the show Of wild delight on street and market-place? Do you remember how you felt just then, When you obtained the news that war was done; Your heart elated joined rejoicing men In grateful praise, that victory was won? Do you remember when the shadows fell, You saw your comrades who had won their peace, In the grim battle that was death and hell, And all the clamorings of your soul did cease? You gave your rev'rent thought to them and cried: "God teach us to remember what it cost, In splendid human lives just sacrificed, That we may honour them, our loved and lost" They fell in fighting we escaped and now, As comrades, we pay tribute to their worth; We cannot place a laurel on their brow, But we can show their valour here on earth. We can be true, as true as they were true, In splendid friendship nothing here can sever; We can live on to do what they would do, And in our hearts enshrine their names forever."