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

The Ascent

David O’Neil

WITH following the paths that ascend

I have lost the sense of my dwarfish stature;

Lost the sense of the city’s bigness

As it dwindles to mosaics;

Lost the sense of the teeming streets

As they dwindle into threads;

Lost the sense of the cultivated foothills,

As they dwindle into a faded quilt—

With following the paths that ascend!