Produced by Gerard Arthus; paksenarrion; Jana Srna; Special Collections, Florida State University; Lilly Library, Indiana University; Brooklyn Public Library; Morris Library, Southern Illinois University and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH AND OTHER POEMS BY THE SAME AUTHOR SONGS OF ACTION SONGS OF THE ROAD THE WHITE COMPANY MICAH CLARKE THE REFUGEES RODNEY STONE UNCLE BERNAC THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES HIS LAST BOW: SOME REMINISCENCES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES THE ADVENTURES OF BRIGADIER GERARD THE SIGN OF FOUR SIR NIGEL CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR ROUND THE RED LAMP THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS THE TRAGEDY OF THE "KOROSKO" A DUET, WITH AN OCCASIONAL CHORUS THE GREEN FLAG, AND OTHER STORIES THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR ROUND THE FIRE STORIES THE LAST GALLEY THE LOST WORLD THE VALLEY OF FEAR DANGER! AND OTHER STORIES LONDON: JOHN MURRAY THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH AND OTHER POEMS BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AUTHOR OF "SONGS OF ACTION," "SONGS OF THE ROAD" LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1919 All Rights Reserved PREFACE I must apologize for the size of this booklet, which can only be justified on the grounds that there is some demand for the contents as recitations. I hope presently to combine whatever is worth preserving in my three volumes of verse, so as to make a single collection. Arthur Conan Doyle. CONTENTS PAGE THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH 9 VICTRIX 13 THOSE OTHERS 16 HAIG IS MOVING 20 THE GUNS IN SUSSEX 22 YPRES 26 GROUSING 37 THE VOLUNTEER 40 THE NIGHT PATROL 44 THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY 47 THE BIGOT 55 THE ATHABASCA TRAIL 62 RAGTIME! 65 CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME 68 LINDISFAIRE 70 A PARABLE 75 FATE 76 THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH Men of the Twenty-first, Up by the Chalk Pit Wood, Weak from our wounds and our thirst, Wanting our sleep and our food After a day and a night. God! shall I ever forget? Beaten and broke in the fight, But sticking it, sticking it yet, Trying to hold the line, Fainting and spent and done; Always the thud and the whine, Always the yell of the Hun. Northumberland, Lancaster, York, Durham and Somerset, Fighting alone, worn to the bone, But sticking it, sticking it yet.