Alfred Battle Bealle. Grasses and Sand. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Grasses and Sand

By Alfred Battle Bealle


From “Peace” I SAW blown grasses and white sand today!
On either hand blown grasses, rain-freshen’d,
And underneath, the samite peace of sand.

God seemed no further than my hand might reach;
And I, who long had trod my city ways,	5
Came face to face with the passion of grass and sand:

The passion of all of the laboring years at last,
The stable earth with its miracled leaf and bloom,
And its syllabled speech to me, “Hold fast! hope hard!”