In lonely gorge and over hill and plain,
I sowed the giant forests of the world;
The great earth like a human heart in pain
Has quivered with the meteors I have hurled.

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Author's note, in Collected Poems (Vancouver: Clarke and Stuart, 1934), p. 176: "Written in my garden in Quebec. Time is the greatest force in the universe, and to it all others are subservient."

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In lonely gorge and over hill and plain,I sowed the giant forests of the world;The great earth like a human heart in painHas quivered with the meteors I have hurled.

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In lonely gorge and over hill and plain,
I sowed the giant forests of the world;
The great earth like a human heart in pain
Has quivered with the meteors I have hurled.