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

“I Wondered and Wondered”

Hilda Conkling

From “Song Nets”

I WONDERED and wondered …

I saw a comrade of mine;

It was a wave smooth and blue

That tossed … fell away.

I wondered and wondered …

I saw a mountain white with old age:

I could not remember

How I came there.

I wondered and wondered …

Under a motherly sky

That knew my name and kind,

That rested my tired thoughts,

That said, “I have a rainbow for you, Hilda,

And a young moon, hidden.”