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

Monotone

Carl Sandburg

THE MONOTONE of the rain is beautiful,

And the sudden rise and slow relapse

Of the long multitudinous rain.

The sun on the hills is beautiful,

Or a captured sunset sea-flung,

Bannered with fire and gold.

A face I know is beautiful—

With fire and gold of sky and sea,

And the peace of long warm rain.