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Poem by John McCrae


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.



John McCrae


John McCrae's other poems:
  1. The Dying of Pere Pierre
  2. Upon Watts’ Picture ”Sic Transit”
  3. The Shadow of the Cross
  4. The Anxious Dead
  5. The Harvest of the Sea


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