| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Renouncement | | By John Daniel Logan (1869–1929) |
| | | I BUILT mine altar on thy Heart: | |
| Each morn I burned Love’s incense there: | |
| And thou the hallowed sacrifice | |
| Blest with thy dear commemorative eyes. | |
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| Now thou art gone into the Night, | 5 |
| And Sorrow sits alone with me: | |
| Her cold, dumb lips she will not ope | |
| To call thee from the sepulchre of Hope. | |
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| The darkened house within is still: | |
| And though I wistful vigil keep, | 10 |
| The winds without cry mournfully | |
| That thou, alas! wilt not return to me. * * * * * | |
| Ah, though the days that are to come | |
| Bring not thy lost form back to me,— | |
| Yet will I for Love’s sake arise | 15 |
| Each morn, and to thine Image sacrifice! | | | | |
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