Padraic Colum. To Any Poet. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

To Any Poet

By Padraic Colum


BELOW there are white-faced throngs:
Their march is a tide coming nigher;
Below there are white-faced throngs:
Their faith is a banner flung higher.
Below there are white-faced throngs,	5
White swords they have yet, but red songs;
Place and lot they have lost—hear you not?—
For a dream you once dreamed, and forgot!