| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Hopi Sun-Christening | | By Emma Hawkridge |
| | | CHILD, | |
| High aloft you are held to the dawn, | |
| Naked, | |
| To feel the sun’s first rays. | |
| The welcoming god will come, | 5 |
| Leaping | |
| Out of the under-world, | |
| To greet you, to bathe, to engulf you | |
| Child, | |
| Straining the brown arms of your grandmother. | 10 |
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| Silent upon the mesa top, | |
| Above a desert of silence, | |
| We, your people, wait | |
| To strip you, earth-strange, to the sun-god, | |
| Child who have lain in the darkness, | 15 |
| Child who shall live in the sun. | |
| Do you see | |
| The lifting of the dusk, | |
| The white line of the dawn, | |
| The yellow coming of light? | 20 |
| Wailing child, | |
| Behold! He has touched you—the Sun! | | | | |
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