| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | The Seasons of the Gods | | By Albert Ernest Stafford Smythe (1861–1947) |
| | | I SAT with May upon a midnight hill | |
| Wrapped in a dusk of unremembered years | |
| And thought on buried April—on the tears | |
| And shrouds of March, and Youth’s dead daffodil | |
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| All withered on a mound of Spring. And still | 5 |
| The earth moved sweetly in her sleep, the Spheres | |
| Wrought peace about her path, and for her ears | |
| Chimed the high music of their blended will. | |
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| The God who dreamed the Earth, as I this frame | |
| That makes me thrall to death and coward of birth— | 10 |
| Dreamed He not March below some vanished Moon— | |
| Under an earlier Heaven’s auroral flame | |
| The cosmic April flowering into mirth | |
| Of May and joy of Universal June? | | | | |
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