| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Overlord | | By Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
| | From ‘Veni Creator’
LORD of the grass and hill, | |
| Lord of the rain, | |
| White Overlord of will, | |
| Master of pain, | |
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| I who am dust and air | 5 |
| Blown through the halls of death, | |
| Like a pale ghost of prayer,— | |
| I am thy breath. | |
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| Lord of the blade and leaf, | |
| Lord of the bloom, | 10 |
| Sheer Overlord of grief, | |
| Master of doom, | |
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| Lonely as wind or snow, | |
| Through the vague world and dim, | |
| Vagrant and glad I go; | 15 |
| I am thy whim. | |
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| Lord of the storm and lull, | |
| Lord of the sea, | |
| I am thy broken gull, | |
| Blown far alee. | 20 |
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| Lord of the harvest dew, | |
| Lord of the dawn, | |
| Star of the paling blue | |
| Darkling and gone, | |
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| Lost on the mountain height | 25 |
| Where the first winds are stirred, | |
| Out of the wells of night | |
| I am thy word. | |
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| Lord of the haunted hush, | |
| Where raptures throng, | 30 |
| I am thy hermit thrush, | |
| Ending no song. | |
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| Lord of the frost and cold, | |
| Lord of the North, | |
| When the red sun grows old | 35 |
| And day goes forth, | |
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| I shall put off this girth— | |
| Go glad and free, | |
| Earth to my mother earth, | |
| Spirit to thee. | 40 | | | |
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