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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.



John McCrae


John McCrae's other poems:
  1. Slumber Songs
  2. The Dying of Pere Pierre
  3. Unsolved
  4. Quebec
  5. The Oldest Drama


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