| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore | | By Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | HE, who, but yesterday would roam | |
| Careless as clouds and currents range, | |
| In homeless wandering most at home, | |
| Inhabiter of change: | |
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| Who wooed the West to win the East, | 5 |
| And named the stars of North and South, | |
| And felt the zest of Freedom’s feast | |
| Familiar in his mouth: | |
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| Who found a faith in stranger speech, | |
| And fellowship in foreign hands, | 10 |
| And had within his eager reach | |
| The relish of all lands— | |
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| How circumscribed a plot of earth | |
| Keeps now his restless footsteps still, | |
| Whose wish was wide as ocean’s girth, | 15 |
| Whose will the water’s will! | | | | |
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