| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 149. Broadway |
| | | By Hermann Hagedorn |
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| HOW like the stars are these white, nameless faces— | |
| These far innumerable burning coals! | |
| This pale procession out of stellar spaces, | |
| This Milky Way of souls! | |
| Each in its own bright nebulæ enfurled, | 5 |
| Each face, dear God, a world! | |
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| I fling my gaze out through the silent night: | |
| In those far stars, what gardens, what high halls, | |
| Has mortal yearning built for its delight, | |
| What chasms and what walls? | 10 |
| What quiet mansions where a soul may dwell? | |
| What heaven and what hell? | |
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