| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | November | | By Marjorie Allen Seiffert |
| | | WHERE, like ghosts of verdant days | |
| Whispering down, | |
| Leaves in the November haze | |
| Drift and drown, | |
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| Stand two lovers, motionless | 5 |
| And apart | |
| In their sturdy nakedness | |
| Of the heart— | |
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| Two dark figures, side by side | |
| In the mist, | 10 |
| Standing as though time had died | |
| Since they kissed; | |
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| Whose deep roots, alive and sound | |
| Blindly reach, | |
| Mingling in the fertile ground | 15 |
| Each with each. | |
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| Pray that we, when gaunt and old, | |
| Like bare trees | |
| Through our common earth may hold | |
| Close like these! | 20 | | | |
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