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.

1. The Shadow of the Cross
2. The Dying of Pere Pierre
3. Unsolved
4. Slumber Songs
5. The Harvest of the Sea

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