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

He Buildeth His House

Lily A. Long

HE hewed him the gray cold rock

To make the foundations under.

The walls and the towers should lock

Past the power of the earth to sunder,

Then, masking the bastions’ frown,

Art came, embroidered and gilded

That beauty and joy might crown

The palace which power had builded.

God sighed:“Why build so tall

Thy prison wall?”