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

Blizzard

Kemper Hammond Broadus

From “Rough Ways”

ALL day the wind has sent along the trail

A cry of battle. Now night falls again.

Swept through the dusk like horsemen spectral-pale,

The charging snow-gusts spur across the plain.

Beneath their onslaught fades each wagon-mark.

The winding road is captured. Mad to slay,

They thunder down upon me in the dark;

They strike me, blind me—I have lost the way!