581. March by Charles Henry Webb. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

581. March

By Charles Henry Webb


THE EARTH seems a desolate mother,—
Betrayed like the princess of old,
The ermine stripped from her shoulders,
And her bosom all naked and cold.

But a joy looks out from her sadness,	5
For she feels with a glad unrest
The throb of the unborn summer
Under her bare, brown breast.