| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Knowledge | | By Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
| | | WHAT is more large than knowledge, and more sweet; | |
| Knowledge of thoughts and deeds, of rights and wrongs, | |
| Of passions, and of beauties, and of songs; | |
| Knowledge of life; to feel its great heart beat | |
| Through all the soul upon her crystal seat; | 5 |
| To see, to feel, and evermore to know; | |
| To till the old world’s wisdom till it grow | |
| A garden for the wandering of our feet. | |
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| Oh for a life of leisure and broad hours, | |
| To think and dream, to put away small things, | 10 |
| This world’s perpetual leaguer of dull noughts; | |
| To wander like the bee among the flowers | |
| Till old age find us weary, feet and wings | |
| Grown heavy with the gold of many thoughts. | | | | |
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