| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Transformed | | By John Stuart Thomson (1869–1950) |
| | | ’TWAS in the purple-flow’ring month we met, | |
| And I had gathered fleurs-de-lis for her; | |
| And sought the dim wood where the fern leaves stir | |
| To find an orchis, fringed and sweet and wet; | |
| These in her simple joy she coyly set | 5 |
| Among her tresses;—but I knew her not; | |
| Some passing wind a sylph or nymph had brought. | |
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| And ere I sighed or spoke a vain regret, | |
| She led me to a green and shadowy grove, | |
| Where fallow-deer, large eyed, did shyly rove;— | 10 |
| And on a bank of thyme we two did sit; | |
| Words were forgotten; in her wide blue eyes | |
| I read some symbol language, though my wit | |
| Had passed away. I dwelt in Paradise. | | | | |
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