Norman Rowland Gale (4 March 1862 – 7 October 1942) was a poet, novelist and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years.
[3] His poems "Betrothed" and "The Call" appeared in The Yellow Book.
[4][5] His best-known poem is probably "The Country Faith",[6] which is in The Oxford Book of English Verse.
In the United States, Louis Untermeyer included it in his anthology Modern British Poetry, and, with a change of title to "Life in the Country", it opened the second reader in Cora Wilson Stewart's series, Country Life Readers.
[7] For the last two years of his life Gale lived in Headley Down, Hampshire, where he died at the age of eighty.