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

The Loon

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

He gibbered at the taunting stars,—

A hermit-soul gone raving mad,

And beating at his bars.

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