| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | August Gardens | | By H. H. Bellamann |
| | | FAILING petals and dusty leaves | |
| And drooping flower-heads, | |
| Beneath unpitying skies | |
| Unpromising of cloud or change— | |
| Yet some faint life still moves | 5 |
| In your pale veins; | |
| Some dumb, unknowing courage | |
| Meets each day’s mocking sun. | |
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| How you keep faith with wind and rain! | |
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| I watch you in your silence, | 10 |
| Touch your curled tendrils; | |
| While my tired eyes | |
| Search heaven for promise | |
| Or for change. | |
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| Can you know in your dim nerves | 15 |
| The touch of one who waits, like you, | |
| And still keeps faith with God, | |
| As you keep faith with wind and rain? | | | | |
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