Alexander Louis Fraser (1870-1954). A Gloaming Call. William Wilfred Campbell, comp. 1913. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse

William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913.

A Gloaming Call

By Alexander Louis Fraser (1870–1954)


SOMETIMES at close of day
As children leave their play,
And dusk dips into dark;
When winds sweet-scented blow
Up from the past, for voices dear I hark;	5
Then this comes soft and low:
‘Come in my child; for quenched is day’s last spark.’
Once more my feet those dewy fields do roam,
And through the gloaming shines the light of Home!