| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | On a Child’s Portrait | | By Arthur Stringer (1874–1950) |
| | | DEEP in the fluted hollow of its shells | |
| Dimly some echo of the ocean dwells. | |
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| Still in September’s fruitage, mellow-cored, | |
| The filtered sweets of golden noons are stored. | |
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| And shimmering on a blue-bird’s migrant wings | 5 |
| Some poignant touch of June’s lost azure clings. | |
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| Still in the rustling sheaf to-day there gleams | |
| The lingering gold of April’s vanished dreams. | |
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| Still in the cell of one autumnal bee | |
| I find lost summer in epitome. | 10 |
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| And all that better life that I would lead, | |
| Writ small in this, one childish face, I read. | | | | |
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