| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | The Cry of the Romanticist | | By William Talbot Allison (1874–1941) |
| | | TO-MORROW I shall once again behold | |
| The bright clear weather after skies of grey, | |
| Forever through the unaccustomed day | |
| I shall be puissant in the lists of old. | |
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| Delay not, therefore, shining day of gold, | 5 |
| But spring eternal from the fields of night, | |
| And lift my soul into far seas of light, | |
| And bring me near my perfect love, Isolde. | |
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| For in this night of time no more I find | |
| The fluted dreams, unperishing and high, | 10 |
| The ringing temper of the ancient mind. | |
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| Glory is gone, while Love, a wasted thing, | |
| Looks from dim windows on the passers-by, | |
| And Love, alas! has lost the heart to sing. | | | | |
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