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In Due Season

John Alexander McCrae 1872 – 1918

If night should come and find me at my toil,
When all Life's day I had, tho' faintly, wrought,
And shallow furrows, cleft in stony soil
Were all my labour:    Shall I count it naught
  
If only one poor gleaner, weak of hand,
Shall pick a scanty sheaf where I have sown?
"Nay, for of thee the Master doth demand
Thy work:    the harvest rests with Him alone."
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Scheme ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 352
Words 70
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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John Alexander McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. more…

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