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

Clouds and Waves

Oscar Williams

From “Golden Darkness”

WITH bent heads hidden the clouds run by,

Muffled in shadow, across the sky.

With lowered eyes, in the darkness of the sea,

The hunched lean waves scud away fearfully.

How great is the wrong, and where is the place?

What is the truth that they cannot face?