| Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | | | To a Discarded Steel Rail | | By Maxwell Bodenheim |
| | | STRAIGHT strength pitched into the surliness of the ditch, | |
| A soul you havestrength has always delicate secret reasons. | |
| Your soul is a dull question. | |
| I do not care for your strength, but for your stiff smile at Time | |
| A smile which men call rust. | 5 | | | |
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