| Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920. | | | | Childhood Memories | | By William Saphier |
| | | THOSE years are foliage of trees, | |
| their trunks hidden by bushes; | |
| behind them a grey haze topped with silver | |
| hides the swinging steps of my first love | |
| the Danube. | 5 |
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| On its face | |
| grave steel palaces with smoking torches, | |
| parading monasteries moved slowly to the Black Sea | |
| till the bared branches scratched the north wind. | |
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| On its bed | 10 |
| a great Leviathan waited | |
| for the ceremonies on the arrival of Messiah | |
| and bobbing small fishes snapped sun splinters | |
| for the pleasure of the monster. | |
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| Along its shores | 15 |
| red capped little hours danced | |
| with rainbow colored kites, | |
| messengers to heaven. | |
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| My memory is a sigh | |
| of swallows swinging | 20 |
| through a slow dormant summer | |
| to a timid line on the horizon. | | | | |
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