Ontario Readers Third Book, The

<h2><SPAN name="Afterglow" id="Afterglow"></SPAN>AFTERGLOW</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>After the clangour of battle<br/></span> <span>There comes a moment of rest,<br/></span> <span>And the simple hopes and the simple joys<br/></span> <span>And the simple thoughts are best.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>After the victor's p&aelig;an,<br/></span> <span>After the thunder of gun,<br/></span> <span>There comes a lull that must come to all<br/></span> <span>Before the set of the sun.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Then what is the happiest memory?<br/></span> <span>Is it the foe's defeat?<br/></span> <span>Is it the splendid praise of a world<br/></span> <span>That thunders by at your feet?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Nay, nay, to the life-worn spirit<br/></span> <span>The happiest thoughts are those<br/></span> <span>That carry us back to the simple joys<br/></span> <span>And the sweetness of life's repose.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>A simple love and a simple trust<br/></span> <span>And a simple duty done,<br/></span> <span>Are truer torches to light to death<br/></span> <span>Than a whole world's victories won.<br/></span></div> </div> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Wilfred Campbell</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />