John Mccrae God Poems

• 1. Unsolved
  Amid my books I lived the hurrying years,
  Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;
  Alike to me were human smiles and tears,
  I cared not whither Earth's great life-stream ran,
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• 2. The Hope Of My Heart
  “Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine.”
  
  
  I left, to earth, a little maiden fair,
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• 3. The Dying Of Pere Pierre
  “. . . with two other priests; the same night he died,
  and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name.”
  Chronicle.
  
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• 4. The Dead Master
  Amid earth's vagrant noises, he caught the note sublime:
  To-day around him surges from the silences of Time
  A flood of nobler music, like a river deep and broad,
  Fit song for heroes gathered in the banquet-hall of God.
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• 5. Recompense
  I saw two sowers in Life's field at morn,
  To whom came one in angel guise and said,
  “Is it for labour that a man is born?
  Lo: I am Ease. Come ye and eat my bread!”
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• 6. Eventide
  The day is past and the toilers cease;
  The land grows dim 'mid the shadows grey,
  And hearts are glad, for the dark brings peace
  At the close of day.
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• 7. Equality
  I saw a King, who spent his life to weave
  Into a nation all his great heart thought,
  Unsatisfied until he should achieve
  The grand ideal that his manhood sought;
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• 8. Anarchy
  I saw a city filled with lust and shame,
  Where men, like wolves, slunk through the grim half-light;
  And sudden, in the midst of it, there came
  One who spoke boldly for the cause of Right.
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