Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Dilemma

Orrick Johns

WHAT though the moon should come

With a blinding glow,

And the stars have a game

On the wood’s edge …

A man would have to still

Cut and weed and sow,

And lay a white line

When he plants a hedge.

What though God

With a great sound of rain

Came to talk of violets

And things people do …

I would have to labor

And dig with my brain

Still to get a truth

Out of all words new.