In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"></SPAN></p> <br/> <h2> Unsolved </h2> <p>Amid my books I lived the hurrying years,<br/> Disdaining kinship with my fellow man;<br/> Alike to me were human smiles and tears,<br/> I cared not whither Earth's great life-stream ran,<br/> Till as I knelt before my mouldered shrine,<br/> God made me look into a woman's eyes;<br/> And I, who thought all earthly wisdom mine,<br/> Knew in a moment that the eternal skies<br/> Were measured but in inches, to the quest<br/> That lay before me in that mystic gaze.<br/> "Surely I have been errant: it is best<br/> That I should tread, with men their human ways."<br/> God took the teacher, ere the task was learned,<br/> And to my lonely books again I turned.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />