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

Goldenrod

John Russell McCarthy

HEIGH-HO, the proud batallions

That tread the gleaming hill,

That muster for the sun, their king,

To do his flaming will.

With golden pennants streaming,

With myriad brazen spears,

They drive the fleeing summer

Over the fallen years.