| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Te Deum Laudamus | | By Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) |
| | | I WILL praise God alway for each new year. | |
| Knowing that it shall be most worthy of | |
| His kindness and His pity and His love | |
| I will wait patient, till, from sphere to sphere, | |
| Across large times and spaces, ringeth clear | 5 |
| The voice of Him who sitteth high above, | |
| Saying, ‘Behold! thou hast had pain enough; | |
| Come; for thy Love is waiting for thee here!’ | |
| I know that it must happen as God saith. | |
| I know it well. Yet, also, I know well | 10 |
| That where birds sing and yellow wild-flowers dwell, | |
| Or where some strange new sunset lingereth, | |
| All Earth shall alway of her presence tell | |
| Who liveth not for me this side of death. | | | | |
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