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

Vera Cruz

Grace Hazard Conkling

From “Songs for Places”
Old Mexico

I SEE them in the storm-washed light,

Like ebony against the sand;

The wrecks of ships lost long ago

From many a mellow land.

Oh, may the sand soon cover them,

And all their sorrow be unlearned!

They are too like those dreams of mine

That nevermore returned.