| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | A Little Song | | By Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) |
| | | THE SUNSET in the rosy west | |
| Burned soft and high; | |
| A shore-lark fell like a stone to his nest | |
| In the waving rye. | |
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| A wind came over the garden beds | 5 |
| From the dreamy lawn, | |
| The pansies nodded their purple heads, | |
| The poppies began to yawn. | |
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| One pansy said, ‘It is only sleep, | |
| Only his gentle breath;’ | 10 |
| But a rose lay strewn in a snowy heap, | |
| For the rose it was only death. | |
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| Heigho! we’ve only one life to live, | |
| And only one death to die: | |
| Good-morrow, new world! have you nothing to give? | 15 |
| Good-bye, old world—good-bye! | | | | |
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