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

Our Time

David Osborne Hamilton

From “Hoofs and Haloes”

ONCE more earth bellows with the lust

Of rolling drums. Once more we win with fire

The passing wind, and perish for the dust

Of man’s desire.

Fierce as the tiger in the night,

And greedy as the swine that roots the clod

Is man, whose spirit of eternal light

Moves into God.