| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Alberta | | By John Campbell, Duke of Argyll (1845–1914) |
| | | IN token of the love which thou hast shown | |
| For this wide land of freedom, I have named | |
| A province vast, and for its beauty famed, | |
| By thy dear name to be hereafter known. | |
| Alberta shall it be! Her fountains thrown | 5 |
| From alps unto three oceans, to all men | |
| Shall vaunt her loveliness e’en now; and when, | |
| Each little hamlet to a city grown, | |
| And numberless as blades of prairie grass, | |
| Or the thick leaves in distant forest bower, | 10 |
| Great peoples hear the giant currents pass, | |
| Still shall the waters, bringing wealth and power, | |
| Speak the loved name—land of silver springs— | |
| Worthy the daughter of our English kings. | | | | |
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