| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Wonder of It | | By Harriet Monroe |
| | From “Poems of Travel”
HOW wild, how witch-like weird that life should be! | |
| That the insensate rock dared dream of me, | |
| And take to bursting out and burgeoning— | |
| Oh long ago—yo ho!— | |
| And wearing green! How stark and strange a thing | 5 |
| That life should be! | |
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| Oh mystic mad, a rigadoon of glee, | |
| That dust should rise, and leap alive, and flee | |
| A-foot, a-wing, and shake the deeps with cries— | |
| Oh far away—yo-hay! | 10 |
| What moony masque, what arrogant disguise | |
| That life should be! | | | | |
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