| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | The Fifteenth of April | | By Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) |
| | | PALLID saffron glows the broken stubble, | |
| Brimmed with silver lie the ruts, | |
| Purple the ploughed hill; | |
| Down a sluice with break and bubble | |
| Hollow falls the rill; | 5 |
| Falls and spreads and searches, | |
| Where, beyond the wood, | |
| Starts a group of silver birches, | |
| Bursting into bud. | |
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| Under Venus sings the vesper sparrow, | 10 |
| Down a path of rosy gold | |
| Floats the slender moon; | |
| Ringing from the rounded barrow | |
| Rolls the robin’s tune; | |
| Lighter than the robin; hark! | 15 |
| Quivering silver-strong | |
| From the field a hidden shore-lark | |
| Shakes his sparkling song. | |
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| Now the dewy sounds begin to dwindle, | |
| Dimmer grow the burnished rills, | 20 |
| Breezes creep and halt, | |
| Soon the guardian night shall kindle | |
| In the violet vault, | |
| All the twinkling tapers | |
| Touched with steady gold, | 25 |
| Burning through the lawny vapours | |
| Where they float and fold. | | | | |
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