| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | A Prayer | | By Grant Allen (1848–1899) |
| | | A CROWNED caprice is god of this world; | |
| On his stony breast are his white wings furled. | |
| No ear to listen, no eye to see, | |
| No heart to feel for a man hath he. | |
| But his pitiless arm is swift to smite; | 5 |
| And his mute lips utter one word of might, | |
| ’Mid the clash of gentler souls and rougher, | |
| ‘Wrong must thou do, or wrong must suffer.’ | |
| Then grant, O dumb, blind god, at least that we | |
| Rather the sufferers than the doers be. | 10 | | | |
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