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

Carnage

Antoinette De Coursey Patterson

OVER the valley swept the Autumn flood—

In showers of leaden bullets fell the rain;

The firs swayed to and fro, drunken with pain,

And wounded maples stained the earth with blood.