| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Temple of Hunger | | By Skipwith Cannéll |
| | From “Songs of Hunger”
THERE’S a temple, dark and silent, | |
| Littered with dust and bone, | |
| Where the countless hoards of the starving | |
| Bow at the Lean God’s throne. | |
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| In the chilling gloom by the altar, | 5 |
| Whence even hatred has fled, | |
| Sits the God of Hunger gloating | |
| Over tribute of starven dead. | |
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| Before him, and beaten and bitter, | |
| From eastern and western lands, | 10 |
| Cringe the people the God of Hunger | |
| Will crumple between his hands. | |
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| Silent they crouch and hopeless; | |
| Each with a look that sees, | |
| Each one but a stricken shadow, | 15 |
| Its forehead between its knees. | | | | |
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