| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Confused Dawn |
| | | William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall (b. 1857) |
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| WHAT are the Vision and the Cry | |
| That haunt the new Canadian soul? | |
| Dim grandeur spreads we know not why | |
| O’er mountain, forest, tree and knoll, | |
| And murmurs indistinctly fly. | 5 |
| Some magic moment sure is nigh. | |
| O Seer, the curtain roll! | |
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| The Vision, mortal, it is this: | |
| Dead mountain, forest, knoll and tree, | |
| Awaken all endued with bliss, | 10 |
| A native land—O think! to be | |
| Thy native land! and, ne’er amiss, | |
| Its smile shall like a lover’s kiss | |
| From henceforth seem to thee. | |
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| The Cry thou couldst not understand, | 15 |
| Which runs through that new realm of light, | |
| From Breton’s to Vancouver’s strand | |
| O’er many a lovely landscape bright, | |
| It is their waking utterance grand, | |
| The great refrain “A Native Land!” | 20 |
| Thine be the ear, the sight. | |
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