In Due Season
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."
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.