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

A Lady of the Snows

Harriet Monroe

From “Mountain Poems”

THE MOUNTAIN hemlock droops her lacy branches

Oh, so tenderly

In the summer sun!

Yet she has power to baffle avalanches—

She, rising slenderly

Where the rivers run.

So pliant yet so powerful! Oh, see her

Spread alluringly

Her thin sea-green dress!

Now from white winter’s thrall the sun would free her

To bloom unenduringly

In his glad caress.