| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | In the Woods | | By Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) |
| | | THIS is God’s house—the blue sky is the ceiling, | |
| This wood the soft green carpet for His feet, | |
| Those hills His stairs, down which the brooks come stealing | |
| With baby laughter, making earth more sweet. | |
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| And here His friends come, clouds, and soft winds sighing, | 5 |
| And little birds whose throats pour forth their love, | |
| And spring and summer, and the white snow lying | |
| Pencilled with shadows of bare boughs above. | |
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| And here come sunbeams through the green leaves straying, | |
| And shadows from the storm-clouds over-drawn, | 10 |
| And warm, hushed nights, when Mother Earth is praying | |
| So late that her moon-candle burns till dawn. | |
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| Sweet house of God, sweet earth, so full of pleasure, | |
| I enter at thy gates in storm or calm; | |
| And every sunbeam is a joy or pleasure, | 15 |
| And every cloud a solace and a balm. | | | | |
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