424. Unsolved by John McCrae
b'J McCrae read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\nUnsolved\\nby John McCrae (1872 \\u2013 1918)\\n\\nAmid my books I lived the hurrying years,\\n Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;\\nAlike to me were human smiles and tears,\\n I cared not whither Earth\'s great life-stream ran,\\nTill as I knelt before my mouldered shrine,\\n God made me look into a woman\'s eyes;\\nAnd I, who thought all earthly wisdom mine,\\n Knew in a moment that the eternal skies\\nWere measured but in inches, to the quest\\n That lay before me in that mystic gaze.\\n"Surely I have been errant: it is best\\n That I should tread, with men their human ways."\\nGod took the teacher, ere the task was learned,\\nAnd to my lonely books again I turned.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 19 February 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'