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

The Sea Bird to the Wave

By Padraic Colum

ON and on,

O white brother!

Thunder does not daunt thee!

How thou movest!

By thine impulse—

With no wing!

Fairest thing

The wide sea shows me!

On and on

O white brother!

Art thou gone!