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

The Shadow

By William Carlos Williams

SOFT as the bed in the earth

Where a stone has lain—

So soft, so smooth and so cool,

Spring closes me in

With her arms and her hands.

Rich as the smell

Of new earth on a stone,

That has lain, breathing

The damp through its pores—

Spring closes me in

With her blossomy hair;

Brings dark to my eyes.