| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Ominous Concord | | By Glenway Wescott |
| | From “Still-hunt”
AS if I were Jeanne d’Arc, | |
| But wearier, I prepare | |
| Answer and return | |
| To the prophetic air; | |
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| My voice answering | 5 |
| Voices of the unearthly nation | |
| With autumnal melody | |
| Of my own creation: | |
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| Melody of alarm lest my | |
| So long-imagined love retreat | 10 |
| Into despair as sharp and fine | |
| As the print of sea-gull’s feet. | |
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| They sing, stilling my response | |
| With silvery indifference; | |
| And what they mean or know | 15 |
| Is, like the falling of first snow, | |
| An indecipherable cadence. | | | | |
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