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Born in 1872 / Died in 1918 / Canada / English

Poems by John McCrae

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The Dying Of Pere Pierre

... and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name ...

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The Harvest Of The Sea

... all day long The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves ...

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The Hope Of My Heart

... "Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine ...

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The Night Cometh

... "There yet is time," they lightly say, ...

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The Oldest Drama

... Which makes a long past sorrow sting againLike grief of yesterday: but since it said ...

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The Pilgrims

... Some clustered graves where half our memories lie ...

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The Song Of The Derelict

... A fig for the wrath of the sea!Some night to the lee of the land I shall steal, ...

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The Unconquered Dead

... Where all the shell-strewn earth is seamed and bare, ...

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The Warrior

... Weave wavering lines across the Southern sky:Or in the stifling 'tween decks, row on row, ...

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Then And Now

... Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain ...

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Unsolved

... I cared not whither Earth's great life-stream ran, ...

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Upon Watts' Picture Sic Transit

... The clash of sword and harness, and the madness of the strife ...

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A Song Of Comfort

... The song would have ceased when the Spring was past, ...

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The Shadow Of The Cross

... Men's hate waxed hot, and their hearts grew cold, ...

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In Flanders Fields

... ys agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields ...