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

By Charles HenryWebb

581 March

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,

For she feels with a glad unrest

The throb of the unborn summer

Under her bare, brown breast.