| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | The Heaven of Love | | By Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) |
| | | I ROSE at midnight and beheld the sky | |
| Sown thick with stars, like grains of golden sand | |
| Which God had scattered loosely from His hand | |
| Upon the floorways of His house on high; | |
| And straight I pictured to my spirit’s eye | 5 |
| The giant worlds, their course by wisdom planned, | |
| The weary wastes, the gulfs no sight hath spanned, | |
| And endless time for ever passing by. | |
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| Then, filled with wonder and a secret dread, | |
| I crept to where my child lay fast asleep, | 10 |
| With chubby arm beneath his golden head. | |
| What cared I then for all the stars above? | |
| One little face shut out the boundless deep, | |
| One little heart revealed the heaven of love. | | | | |
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