| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Twilight Song | | By John Hunter-Duvar (1821–1899) |
| | | THE MOUNTAIN peaks put on their hoods. | |
| Good night! | |
| And the long shadows of the woods | |
| Would fain the landscape cover quite. | |
| The timid pigeons homeward fly, | 5 |
| Scared by the whoop-owl’s eerie cry, | |
| Whoo-oop! whoo-oop! | |
| As like a fiend he flitteth by; | |
| The ox to stall, the fowl to coop, | |
| The old man to his nightcap warm, | 10 |
| Young men and maids to slumbers light. | |
| Sweet Mary, keep our souls from harm! | |
| Good night! good night! | | | | |
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