David Osborne Hamilton. Our Time. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Our Time

By David Osborne Hamilton


From “Hoofs and Haloes” ONCE more earth bellows with the lust
Of rolling drums. Once more we win with fire
The passing wind, and perish for the dust
Of man’s desire.

Fierce as the tiger in the night,	5
And greedy as the swine that roots the clod
Is man, whose spirit of eternal light
Moves into God.