| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | Sappho Lyrics
LX. ‘When I have departed’ | | By Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
| | | WHEN I have departed | |
| Say but this behind me, | |
| ‘Love was all her wisdom, | |
| All her care. | |
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| ‘Well she kept love’s secret,— | 5 |
| Dared and never faltered,— | |
| Laughed and never doubted | |
| Love would win. | |
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| ‘Let the world’s rough triumph | |
| Trample by above her, | 10 |
| She is safe forever | |
| From all harm. | |
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| ‘In a land that knows not | |
| Bitterness nor sorrow, | |
| She has found out all | 15 |
| Of truth at last.’ | | | | |
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