| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Non Omnis Moriar | | By Arthur Stringer (1874–1950) |
| | | IN the teeth of the Word that bars my track, | |
| In the swirl of the Ebb that sucks me down, | |
| In the face of the storm that flings me back | |
| On the wrath of a Deep grown mountainous-walled, | |
| I, I, tide by tide, and tack by tack, | 5 |
| As far as the chains will let me free— | |
| I threading a course unbuoyed and black, | |
| And feeling the Night where fanged rocks frown, | |
| Ere the last spar sail, shall have somehow crawled | |
| To that Port whence shone no light for me; | 10 |
| Where, wrecked, if you will, but unappalled, | |
| I shall know I am stronger than my Sea! | | | | |
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