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

Sown

Charles R. Murphy

RAIN and the patience of the planted field,

Grey skies that hasten to the need

Of brown moistening earth, and to the sealed

Faint harvest in the unbroken seed—

Patience for waiting give us! O planted men,

Who waits your budding and your heaped

Flowers of death? Again, again

Perhaps ye shall return—the reapers, not the reaped—

And, braver than corn-seed hid away together,

Of our meagre or our mighty yield

Shall wake for the gathering in harvest weather.