| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Seeger | | By Haniel Long |
| | From “On the Road”
THE SHAPES of waking moments wearied him; | |
| Heroic beauty stirred him as he slept; | |
| And so he lived his youth, and so he crept | |
| Back to old shadows beautiful and dim. | |
| But at the call to arms his eyes were grim— | 5 |
| Dreams must be saved! So he, the dream-adept, | |
| Seeing young Death afar where horror swept, | |
| Leapt with a lover’s trembling in each limb. | |
| He sought her out he knew to be his maiden, | |
| And cried to her he flamed for as his bride; | 10 |
| The thundering guns were viols for his suit, | |
| And iron shards his couch. The day was laden | |
| With scent of deadly blossoms, and he died. | |
| And now, wrapt with his maiden, he is mute. | | | | |
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