The Harvest Of The Sea
The
earth
grows
white
with
harvest;
all
day
long
The
sickles
gleam,
until
the
darkness
weaves
Her
web
of
silence
o'er
the
thankful
song
Of
reapers
bringing
home
the
golden
sheaves.
The
wave
tops
whiten
on
the
sea
fields
drear,
And
men
go
forth
at
haggard
dawn
to
reap;
But
ever
'mid
the
gleaners'
song
we
hear
The
half-hushed
sobbing
of
the
hearts
that
weep.
John McCrae
John McCrae born in Guelph, Ontario, Canadian poet, soldier, and physician John McCrae earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Toronto, where he received the Gold Medal. McCrae’s well-known poem “In Flanders Fields” memorializes the April 1915 battle in Belgium’s Ypres salient. For 17 days, McCrae tended those injured in the battle. January 28, 1918, at the age of 45. McCrae was buried with full military honors in Wimereux Cemetery near Boulogne, France. His family home in Guelph is preserved as a museum, and the main street in Wimereux is now named Rue McCrae.