| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Burro Loads | | By William H. Simpson |
| | From “Along Old Trails”
WHAT do you carry, O burros gray, | |
| Heaped high with loads, at break of day? | |
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| Pinyon for fires, when days are cold, | |
| And old men shiver, so cold, so old. | |
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| Pinyon for fires, when coals are red, | 5 |
| And brown-skinned bodies are blanketed. | |
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| Pinyon for fires—like a crimson rose, | |
| Flaming, in camps by the early snows. | |
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| Paisano, niña, or señor bold— | |
| Light for their souls, as bells are tolled. | 10 | | | |
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