The Loon by Lew Sarett. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1920. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920.

The Loon

Lew Sarett


A LONELY lake, a lonely shore,
A lone pine leaning on the moon;
All night the water-beating wings
Of a solitary loon.

With mournful wail from dusk to dawn	5
He gibbered at the taunting stars,—
A hermit-soul gone raving mad,
And beating at his bars. American Forestry