| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | The Indian’s Grave | | By George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1789–1863) |
| | | BRIGHT are the heavens, the narrow bay serene; | |
| No sound is heard within the shelter’d place, | |
| Save some sweet whisper of the pines—nor seen | |
| Of restless man, nor of his works, a trace; | |
| I stray, through bushes low, a little space; | 5 |
| Unlook’d-for sight their parted leaves disclose: | |
| Restless no more, lo! one of Indian race, | |
| His bones beneath that roof of bark repose. | |
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| Poor savage! in such bark through deepening snows | |
| Once didst thou dwell; in this through rivers move. | 10 |
| Frail house, frail skiff, frail man! Of him who knows | |
| His master’s will, not thine the doom shall prove. | |
| What will be yours, ye powerful, wealthy, wise, | |
| By whom the heathen unregarded dies? | | | | |
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