| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | An Orient Maid | | By John Stuart Thomson (1869–1950) |
| | | I WATCHED her tie her sandals on | |
| With ribbons soft as her dark hair, | |
| The while her robe of spotless lawn | |
| Moved to the toyings of the air. | |
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| And when her languorous eyelids fell,— | 5 |
| With purest pearl tints softly dyed,— | |
| The dimpled smiles on her cheeks tell | |
| What thoughts in her sweet memory hide. | |
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| From rounded shoulder to the tips | |
| Of tapering fingers, pinkly bright, | 10 |
| And in the curve of her rose lips, | |
| Nature had lavished line and light. | |
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| A zone with sapphires sprinkled o’er | |
| Caught up the flowings of her gown; | |
| And pendent, jewelled charms she wore, | 15 |
| To her warm bosom reaching down. | |
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| I wondered if on lavender, | |
| Or silken pillows, perfume-filled, | |
| Or bed of aromatic fir, | |
| She slept through nights, by love’s dreams stilled. | 20 | | | |
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