The Dying Of Pere Pierre

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Title:     The Dying Of Pere Pierre
Author: John McCrae [More Titles by McCrae]

". . . with two other priests; the same night he died,
and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name."
--Chronicle.

"Nay, grieve not that ye can no honour give
To these poor bones that presently must be
But carrion; since I have sought to live
Upon God's earth, as He hath guided me,
I shall not lack! Where would ye have me lie?
High heaven is higher than cathedral nave:
Do men paint chancels fairer than the sky?"
Beside the darkened lake they made his grave,
Below the altar of the hills; and night
Swung incense clouds of mist in creeping lines
That twisted through the tree-trunks, where the light
Groped through the arches of the silent pines:
And he, beside the lonely path he trod,
Lay, tombed in splendour, in the House of God.

[The end]
John McCrae's poem: Dying Of Pere Pierre

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