Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

The Return

Louise Ayres Garnett

BACK to the voice that sang me,

Back to the breath of birth;

Back to the bells that rang me

From heavenly heights to earth;

Back to the hand that wrought me;

Back to the primal sod;

Back to the mind that thought me—

Home to the breast of God.