Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Embarcation

Mary Aldis

SLOWLY the great wave of a nation’s sorrow

Rises and swells and surges.

From unseen depths it comes,

From very far away.

Silently, relentlessly, it moves

Forward, forward, forward—

Until at last, with a profound reverberation,

It breaks upon the grey, inevitable rock

And falls back, broken into fragments

That seethe in restless foam.