Poem: “The Princess Pat’s” by Edgar A. Guest

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The Princess Pat’s

Written when the Canadian regiment known as the “Princess Pat’s,” left for the front.

  A touch of the plain and the prairie,
    A bit of the Motherland, too;
  A strain of the fur-trapper wary,
    A blend of the old and the new;
  A bit of the pioneer splendor
    That opened the wilderness’ flats,
  A touch of the home-lover, tender,
    You’ll find in the boys they call Pat’s.

  The glory and grace of the maple,
    The strength that is born of the wheat,
  The pride of a stock that is staple,
    The bronze of a midsummer heat;
  A blending of wisdom and daring,
    The best of a new land, and that’s
  The regiment gallantly bearing
    The neat little title of Pat’s.

  A bit of the man who has neighbored
    With mountains and forests and streams,
  A touch of the man who has labored
    To model and fashion his dreams;
  The strength of an age of clean living,
    Of right-minded fatherly chats,
  The best that a land could be giving
    Is there in the breasts of the Pat’s.

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