John Mccrae Song Poems

• 1. Upon Watts' Picture Sic Transit
  "What I spent I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have."
  
  But yesterday the tourney, all the eager joy of life,
  The waving of the banners, and the rattle of the spears,
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• 2. Upon Watts' Picture Sic Transit
  “What I spent I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.”
  
  
  But yesterday the tourney, all the eager joy of life,
  ...
• 3. Then And Now
  Beneath her window in the fragrant night
  I half forget how truant years have flown
  Since I looked up to see her chamber-light,
  Or catch, perchance, her slender shadow thrown
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• 4. 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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• 5. 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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• 6. The Harvest Of The Sea
  The earth grows white with harvest; all day long
  The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves
  Her web of silence o'er the thankful song
  Of reapers bringing home the golden sheaves.
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• 7. 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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• 8. A Song Of Comfort
  “Sleep, weary ones, while ye may-
  Sleep, oh, sleep!”
  Eugene Field.
  
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