| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | In Solitude | | By Virna Sheard (1865?–1943) |
| | | HE is not desolate whose ship is sailing | |
| Over the mystery of an unknown sea, | |
| For some great love with faithfulness unfailing | |
| Will light the stars to bear him company. | |
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| Out in the silence of the mountain passes, | 5 |
| The heart makes peace and liberty its own— | |
| The wind that blows across the scented grasses | |
| Bringing the balm of sleep—comes not alone. | |
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| Beneath the vast illimitable spaces | |
| Where God has set His jewels in array, | 10 |
| A man may pitch his tent in desert places, | |
| Yet know that heaven is not so far away. | |
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| But in the city—in the lighted city | |
| Where gilded spires point toward the sky, | |
| And fluttered rags and hunger ask for pity, | 15 |
| Grey Loneliness in cloth-of-gold, goes by. | | | | |
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