| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 221. Spoon River Anthology |
| | | Thomas Rhodes |
| | | By Edgar Lee Masters |
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| VERY well, you liberals, | |
| And navigators into realms intellectual, | |
| You sailors through heights imaginative, | |
| Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets, | |
| You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits, | 5 |
| And Tennessee Claflin Shopes— | |
| You found with all your boasted wisdom | |
| How hard at the last it is | |
| To keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms. | |
| While we, seekers of earth’s treasures, | 10 |
| Getters and hoarders of gold, | |
| Are self-contained, compact, harmonized, | |
| Even to the end. | |
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