In Flanders Fields and Other Poems/The Hope of My Heart

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The Hope of My Heart  (1894)  by John McCrae

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The Hope of My Heart

"Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quœsumus ne memineris, Domine."

I left, to earth, a little maiden fair,    With locks of gold, and eyes that shamed the light; I prayed that God might have her in His care  And sight. Earth's love was false; her voice, a siren's song;   (Sweet mother-earth was but a lying name) The path she showed was but the path of wrong  And shame. "Cast her not out!" I cry. God's kind words come—    "Her future is with Me, as was her past; It shall be My good will to bring her home  At last."