Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (1872 – 1918)
UNSOLVEDAmid my books I lived the hurrying years,
Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;
Alike to me were human smiles and tears,
I cared not whither Earth's great life-stream ran,
Till as I knelt before my mouldered shrine,
God made me look into a woman's eyes;
And I, who thought all earthly wisdom mine,
Knew in a moment that the eternal skies
Were measured but in inches, to the quest
That lay before me in that mystic gaze.
"Surely I have been errant: it is best
That I should tread, with men their human ways."
God took the teacher, ere the task was learned,
And to my lonely books again I turned.
 UK Buyers | Purchase the BookIn Flanders Fields and Other Poems (Paperback)
by John McCrae (Author) Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: Dodo Press (June 30, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1905432283
ISBN-13: 978-1905432288
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches |  US Buyers | | |
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