John Russell McCarthy. Wild Aster. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Wild Aster

By John Russell McCarthy


WITH goldenrod now hand-in-hand,
Gay summer, rich and full of days,
Sends forth your proud and kingly band
To lead her down the silent ways.

And none that knows the path to death	5
Goes with a statelier, prouder tread.
Sing, Aster, with your dying breath,
The haughty paeans of the dead!