| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| OH, seek me not within a tomb— | |
| Thou shalt not find me in the clay! | |
| I pierce a little wall of gloom | |
| To mingle with the day! | |
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| I brothered with the things that pass, | 5 |
| Poor giddy joy and puckered grief; | |
| I go to brother with the grass | |
| And with the sunning leaf. | |
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| Not death can sheathe me in a shroud; | |
| A joy-sword whetted keen with pain, | 10 |
| I join the armies of the cloud, | |
| The lightning and the rain. | |
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| Oh, subtle in the sap athrill, | |
| Athletic in the glad uplift, | |
| A portion of the cosmic will, | 15 |
| I pierce the planet-drift. | |
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| My God and I shall interknit | |
| As rain and ocean, breath and air; | |
| And oh, the luring thought of it | |
| Is prayer! | 20 |
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