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

Old Manuscript

By Alfred Kreymborg

THE SKY

Is that beautiful old parchment

In which the sun

And the moon

Keep their diary.

To read it all,

One must be a linguist

More learned than Father Wisdom;

And a visionary

More clairvoyant than Mother Dream.

But to feel it,

One must be an apostle:

One who is more than intimate

In having been, always,

The only confidant—

Like the earth

Or the sea.