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

The Hunter

Glenway Wescott

From “Still-hunt”

YOU asked me what I did

In peaked New Mexico,

Where lives the most wild beauty

To which a man may go.

And I answer that I pursued

Content that would go in a song

Upon its silvery mountains

So vainly and so long

That if it were bear or lion

Which I had hunted there

I should now be like Orion,

Fixed hungry in the air.