| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Hills | | By Mary Eastwood Knevels |
| | | THE HILLS repass me, the giant hills; | |
| Crossing and recrossing each other like great animals, | |
| Enormous circles closing and widening around me. | |
| Here at the gully’s edge I see their bodies | |
| Shutting out the sky, processions of them— | 5 |
| Whither do they journey, whence have they come? | |
| Humped camels, and the bulky rhinoceros, | |
| Between them the sliding leopard, | |
| And beyond again the stone-colored gray of the elephant; | |
| All passing, all silent, touring the horizon, | 10 |
| To the dull music of the sun. | |
| O endless procession, passing and repassing!— | |
| Hunched bodies, and soundless music; | |
| And the undulations, living, animal, against the sky! | | | | |
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