| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | The Potato Harvest | | By Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | A HIGH bare field, brown from the plough, and borne | |
| Aslant from sunset; amber wastes of sky | |
| Washing the ridge; a clamour of crows that fly | |
| In from the wide flats where the spent tides mourn | |
| To yon their rocking roosts in pines wind-torn; | 5 |
| A line of grey snake-fence, that zigzags by | |
| A pond, and cattle; from the homestead nigh | |
| The long deep summonings of the supper horn. | |
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| Black on the ridge, against that lonely flush, | |
| A cart, and stoop-necked oxen; ranged beside, | 10 |
| Some barrels; and the day-worn harvest folk, | |
| Here emptying their baskets, jar the hush | |
| With hollow thunders; down the dusk hill-side | |
| Lumbers the wain; and day fades out like smoke. | | | | |
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