| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | A Question | | By Edward John Chapman (1821–1904) |
| | Prologue to ‘The Drama of Two Lives’
ART thou the old dream dreaming? | |
| Poor heart, of the morrow beware! | |
| Death may lurk in the brown eyes’ veiled gleaming, | |
| In the white throat so wondrously fair. | |
| The tones that wild heart-throbs awaken, | 5 |
| The sheen of the gold-showered hair, | |
| The touch that thy soul hath so shaken | |
| May lure thee and leave thee—ah, where? | |
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| Trust it not, the wild, treacherous gladness; | |
| The twin hounds of passion and pain | 10 |
| Are swift to arise in their madness | |
| They rend, and they rest not again! | |
| The day-dream is sweet in the dreaming, | |
| But dreamless the night’s dull despair, | |
| When the voice and the touch and the gleaming | 15 |
| Have lured thee, and left thee—ah, where? | | | | |
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