| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Inscrutable | | By William Carman Roberts (1874–1941) |
| | | HER gold hair, fallen about her face, | |
| Made light within that shadowy place, | |
| But on her garments lay the dust | |
| Of many a vanished race. | |
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| Her deep eyes, gazing straight ahead, | 5 |
| Saw years and days and hours long dead, | |
| While strange gems glimmered at her feet, | |
| Yellow, and green, and red. | |
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| And ever from the shadows came | |
| Voices to pierce her heart like flame. | 10 |
| The great bats fanned her with their wings, | |
| The voices called her name. | |
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| But yet her look turned not aside | |
| From the black deep where dreams abide, | |
| Where worlds and pageantries lay dead | 15 |
| Beneath the viewless tide. | |
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| Her elbow on her knee was set, | |
| Her strong hand propt her chin, and yet | |
| No man might name that look she wore, | |
| Nor any man forget. | 20 | | | |
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