| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Red Coffins | | By John Curtis Underwood |
| | From “War Times”
AFTER the revolution in Petrograd, | |
| They made a great common grave in a vaster parade ground outside the city. | |
| And they brought the red coffins of those who fell fighting for freedom | |
| To honor and bury them. | |
| They piled them tier by tier while the crowd in silence watched them. | 5 |
| And as the pile rose and spread, to many it seemed | |
| Like the red blood of Russia welling from a mortal wound. | |
| And some saw red fagots of freedom rising and kindling a fire that would warm all the world. | |
| But no man there could tell the truth of it. | | | | |
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