Hamlin Garland. The Mountains Are a Lonely Folk. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Mountains Are a Lonely Folk

By Hamlin Garland


THE MOUNTAINS they are silent folk
They stand afar—alone,
And the clouds that kiss their brows at night
Hear neither sigh nor groan.
Each bears him in his ordered place	5
As soldiers do, and bold and high
They fold their forests round their feet
And bolster up the sky.