| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Hope | | By Phillips Stewart (1864–1892) |
| | | IN shadowy calm the boat | |
| Sleeps by the dreaming oar, | |
| The green hills are afloat | |
| Beside the silver shore. | |
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| Youth hoists the white-winged sail, | 5 |
| Love takes the longing oar— | |
| The oft-told fairy tale | |
| Beside the silver shore. | |
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| Soft lip to lip, and heart | |
| To heart, and hand to hand, | 10 |
| And wistful eyes depart | |
| Unto another strand. | |
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| And lovely as a star | |
| They tremble o’er the wave, | |
| With eager wings afar | 15 |
| Unto the joys they crave. | |
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| In a sweet trance they fare | |
| Unto the wind and rain, | |
| With wind-tossed waves of hair, | |
| And ne’er return again. | 20 |
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| And at the drifting side, | |
| Changed faces in the deep | |
| They see, and changing tide, | |
| Like phantoms in a sleep. | |
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| Slow hands furl the torn sail | 25 |
| Without one silver gleam, | |
| And sad, and wan, and pale, | |
| They gaze into a dream. | | | | |
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