| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Continuance | | By Helen Hoyt |
| | From “City Pastorals”
WHAT will you find | |
| In the depths of the wind— | |
| What does it hold? | |
| Fold on fold on flowing fold | |
| Clasp it, and your fingers press | 5 |
| Only a soft emptiness; | |
| Only air is in your hand. | |
| Yet this nothing may command | |
| The purposes of men and seas, | |
| Ordering them with a mighty ease; | 10 |
| With that same, that ancient power | |
| That was born in time’s first hour, | |
| In the beginning of change and days. | |
| But never its strength delays | |
| Or grows old, or will weary or rest; | 15 |
| Nor the years diminish its wild invisible zest. | | | | |
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