Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
VigilWade Oliver
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In ribbed rock and shifting sea,
And yet my fathers vigil keep
Above the sentience that is me.
Their lives, a subtle lightning, play,
Lighting the dusk in which endures
The psychic something that was they.
The lightnings flash; electrons move,
And sweep from unformed lifelessness
To life which bids me hate and love.