William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.

The Confidant

THE WOOD is talking in its sleep.—

Have a care, trees!

You are heard by the brook and the breeze

And the listening lake;

And some of the birds are awake,

I know—

Green, garrulous wood; I trusted you so!

Contemporary Verse