| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Sky-Humor | | By Helen Hoyt |
| | From “City Pastorals”
HOW many and many | |
| Since the world began | |
| Have sung of your beauty, | |
| Moon!— | |
| Since the world began. | 5 |
| And now tonight | |
| We call you ours, | |
| Saying that your beauty belongs to us, | |
| Dreaming that only ourselves | |
| Have known your mystery. | 10 |
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| Sometimes, | |
| Under the hiding of the clouds, | |
| Do you smile, | |
| And laugh to yourself | |
| At these people of the earth | 15 |
| And their imaginings? | |
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| Oh, but do not laugh at us unkindly, | |
| Moon! | |
| Remember how little time we live— | |
| And you live so long! | 20 | | | |
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