| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Birth | | By Marguerite Wilkinson |
| | | THIS was the blessing of his draught of power, | |
| And this the sudden ripple of her hope, | |
| And the swift current of their great desire, | |
| The eddying wonder of their silent hours, | |
| The rising floodtide of her agony, | 5 |
| The billowing beauty of the Infinite, | |
| Borne in, a miracle, upon the shallows | |
| Of their small, individual human lives. | |
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| Yet is it but a little human babe, | |
| Given at last into his reaching arms | 10 |
| And carried to the hollow of her breast! | | | | |
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