"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."