Detail from the Hart House Memorial, University of Toronto
The Great War
Ninety years since the last bullet
Killed the last of us, a Canadian
Very soon time will bury the last survivor
Enlisted as a child
Who lied about his age
There were many lies, that one
The least and most easily forgiven
A lie that offered a life
Instead of taking many
You call it World War One;
To us, it was the Great War.