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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

A Native

Laura Sherry

From “Ridge People”

THERE ain’t no poetry

Like these middlin’ hills

And a slow stream gurglin’ over stones.

Them pines has lived four hundred years

And asked nothin’ of no one.

Straight and tall and strong—

Nothin’ crooked about a pine.

Religion, I call it,

Pointing to the sky

And slinging incense free.

Did you ever hear

A cedar valley moan a dirge

Or sing an anthem?