John Mccrae Death Poems

• 1. The Unconquered Dead
  “. . . defeated, with great loss.”
  
  
  Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame
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• 2. The Song Of The Derelict
  Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rimes
  (I scorn your beguiling, O sea!)
  Ye fondle me now, but to strike me betimes.
  (A treacherous lover, the sea!)
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• 3. The Pilgrims
  An uphill path, sun-gleams between the showers,
  Where every beam that broke the leaden sky
  Lit other hills with fairer ways than ours;
  Some clustered graves where half our memories lie;
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• 4. The Captain
  1797
  
  
  Here all the day she swings from tide to tide,
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• 5. Penance
  My lover died a century ago,
  Her dear heart stricken by my sland'rous breath,
  Wherefore the Gods forbade that I should know
  The peace of death.
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• 6. Mine Host
  There stands a hostel by a travelled way;
  Life is the road and Death the worthy host;
  Each guest he greets, nor ever lacks to say,
  “How have ye fared?” They answer him, the most,
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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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