| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | ‘Ah me! the mighty love’ | | By George Frederick Cameron (1854–1885) |
| | | AH me! the mighty love that I have borne | |
| To thee, sweet Song! A perilous gift was it | |
| My mother gave me that September morn | |
| When sorrow, song, and life were at one altar lit. | |
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| A gift more perilous than the priest’s; his lore | 5 |
| Is all of books and to his books extends; | |
| And what they see and know he knows—no more, | |
| And with their knowing all his knowing ends. | |
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| A gift more perilous than the painter’s; he | |
| In his divinest moments only sees | 10 |
| The inhumanities of colour; we | |
| Feel each and all the inhumanities. | | | | |
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