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Pratik Gandhi (cond​.​)​, Felix Del Tredici (bass trombone & narrator) with String Quintet - Canadians: Part 1 (A Reading of William H. Ogilvie)

from The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings by Benjamin Harry Sajo

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Although not necessarily a Canadian by birth or in life, William H. Ogilvie was considered one of the most favourite Australian and Scottish poets in 1914. However, being a professional jackaroo, he was responsible for preparing Canadian horses for the Army Remount Services. The Canadian breed was renowned as a sturdy, graceful, and powerful mount and his poem, Canadians, is a beautiful and feisty ode expressing the author's love for them.

We would like to thank the descendants and the Will H. Ogilvie Memorial Trust for granting permission to make use of this poem.

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With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs,
With the trampling sound of twenty that re-echoes in the roofs,
Low of crest and dull of coat, wan and wild of eye,
Through our English village the Canadians go by.

Shying at a passing cart, swerving from a car,
Tossing up an anxious head to flaunt a showy star,
Racking at a Yankee gait, reaching at the rein,
Twenty raw Canadians are tasting life again!

Hollow-necked and hollow-flanked, lean of rib and hip,
Strained and sick and weary with the wallow of the ship,
Glad to smell the turf again, hear the robin’s call,
Tread again the country road they lost at Montreal!

Fate may bring them rule and woe; better steeds than they
Sleep beside the English guns a hundred leagues away;
But till war hath need of them lightly lie their reins,
Softly fall the feet of them along the English lanes.

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from The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, released June 6, 2020

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Benjamin Harry Sajo Nunavut

Benjamin Sajo is an Ottawa-based composer and educator. His love of comparative mythology, multiculturalism, folklore, social justice, literature and visual art inspires a writing imbued with a post-modern aesthetic: mixing the tools and tricks of the past into decidedly modern, fiery, magic.

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Master of Music, McGill University, 2013

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