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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Earth

Louis Gilmore

THE EARTH is a moth

Circling about a lamp;

The earth is a cemetery

Of the dead.

The earth is a mother

Rocking a cradle.

The earth is a father

Devouring his children.

The earth is a ghoul

Battening on corpses.

The earth is a garden

Of green trees.

The earth is a pillow

For the head.