| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Beauty | | By Leon Herald |
| | From “A Trifoliate”
OVER beauty I am a weeping willow. | |
| I begged of God to grant me a look at beauty, | |
| And He sent me traveling a billion years | |
| To come to this world. | |
| I came my way an empty vessel, longing for beauty. | 5 |
| I shall go my way fulfilled, glorifying beauty. | |
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| When I look on beauty | |
| I secure a day’s provision; | |
| Thus I accumulate food for another billion years. | |
| When I see beauty | 10 |
| It propels wheels in me, | |
| And puts me in communication with God instantly, | |
| To thank Him that I am arrived. | |
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| My only grief in life is to see a thing without beauty. | |
| Over beauty I am a weeping willow. | 15 | | | |
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