Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Supplicants

H. W. Stewart

IN the shimmering heat

Of the noon-day sun

The parched purple hills

Kneel to snow-crowned Ben Lomond,

Holding out supplicant hands,

Craving a morsel of healing snow.

God-like, austere, unbending

Ben Lomond stands,

Deaf to their prayers.