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

Question

Flora Shufelt Rivola

WHEN I make ready to go to sea

The prairie ways keep calling me;

And when from the deep I’d be sailing home

I am beckoned seaward by the breaking foam.

Why need my heart be divided so—

Going when I stay, and staying when I go?