John McCrae (Джон Маккрей)

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’s other poems:

  1. The Oldest Drama
  2. The Warrior
  3. The Dying of Pere Pierre
  4. The Shadow of the Cross
  5. Equality

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