| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Unswerved | | By Peter MacLaren MacDonald (1868–1960) |
| | | THE SILV’RY river runneth silently | |
| Through em’rald meadow and bird-haunted lea; | |
| Down, down it ever floweth,— | |
| Or north or south wind bloweth,— | |
| Down to the calling sea. | 5 |
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| Though here and there its bed is deep and cool, | |
| It ever riseth from each pleasant pool, | |
| And onward, seaward goeth,— | |
| Or east or west wind bloweth,— | |
| On to the wooing sea. | 10 |
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| Contrary winds war with the stream to-day, | |
| And turn the trembling surface-flood away. | |
| But well the old stream knoweth, | |
| In spite of wind it goeth— | |
| All to the waiting sea. | 15 | | | |
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