Duncan Campbell Scott (Дункан Кэмпбелл Скотт)

Stone Breaking


March wind rough
Clashed the trees,
Flung the snow;
Breaking stones,
In the cold,
Germans slow
Toiled and toiled;
Arrowy sun
Glanced and sprang,
One right blithe
German sang:
Songs of home, 
Fatherland:
Syenite hard,
Weary lot,
Callous hand,
All forgot:
Hammers pound,
Ringing round;
Rise the heaps,
To his voice,
Bounds and leaps
Toise on toise:
Toil is long,
But dear God
Gives us song,
At the end
Gives us test, 
Toil is best.

Duncan Campbell Scott’s other poems:

  1. The Voice and the Dusk
  2. The Sea by the Wood
  3. The Harvest
  4. Rapids at Night
  5. The Height of Land

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