Harold Cook. Never Did I Dream. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Never Did I Dream

By Harold Cook


I NEVER thought that I should walk
In ecstasy the streets of town,
Or find a heart more beautiful
Than red leaves fluttering down.

I did not know archangels pass	5
In human guise among the trees;
And never, never did I dream
That I should walk with these.

But by my side one went today;
I saw, and I had speech with him:	10
And I forgot, who ne’er forgot,
How cold are streets, how grim!