| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Marne | | By Cloyd Head |
| | From “War Sequence”
WITHIN that secret place— | |
| Waste land where the rivers run red | |
| Bearing the blood of the dead | |
| To the charnel sea— | |
| They build a temple and a mystery: | 5 |
| A freedom such as none may ever share | |
| Who have not lived with Death, | |
| Who have not killed. | |
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| Untempered passion, building as earth must build | |
| Through uttermost destruction, reaching toward new life | 10 |
| Blindly, as if aware that out of death may rise | |
| Fulfilment to whatever veiled will | |
| Created conflict—a master-soul unknown. | |
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| Such freedom has no voice: it dares not own | |
| The abyss, the horror, of a life made free; | 15 |
| The grandeur which it cannot understand. | |
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| Therefore the curtain and the mystery; | |
| Therefore the silence that is No-man’s Land. | | | | |
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