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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936).  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.  1912–22.
 
Prayer for Sophistication
By Mark Turbyfill
 
From “Wind-flowers”

CLOSE all open things, O God!
Close the rose,
The throats of flutes and birds.
Close all eyes
To tears not yet fallen.        5
Close my heart:
Close all open things, O God!
 
 
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