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1861–1944 Canada

Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians". He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.

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Ah God, what thunders shook these crags of yore,
What smoke of battle rolled about this place,
What strife of worlds in pregnant agony!
Now all is hushed, yet here, in dreams, once more
We catch the echoes, ringing back from space,
Of God’s strokes forging human history.

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