Clement Wood. O Dear Brown Lands. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

O Dear Brown Lands

By Clement Wood


O DEAR brown lands, out of you I blossomed;
I feed on your rooted and wandering fruits.
And when my puzzled restlessness is done,
You clasp me again,
Scattering me over your brown bosom—	5
My mother, my sustainer, my children,
And my dusty immortality.