| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | A Song of Growth | | By Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | IN the heart of a man | |
| Is a thought upfurled: | |
| Reached its full span | |
| It will shake the world,— | |
| And to one high thought | 5 |
| Is a whole race wrought. | |
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| Not with vain noise | |
| The great work grows, | |
| Nor with foolish voice,— | |
| But in repose; | 10 |
| Not in the rush, | |
| But in the hush! | |
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| From the cogent lash | |
| Of the cloud-herd wind | |
| The low clouds dash, | 15 |
| Blown headlong, blind; | |
| But beyond, the great blue | |
| Looks moveless through. | |
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| O’er the loud world sweep | |
| The scourge and the rod: | 20 |
| But in deep beyond deep | |
| Is the stillness of God,— | |
| At the fountains of Life | |
| No cry, no strife! | | | | |
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