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

Lanes

Alfred Kreymborg

From “Toadstools”

DO you wish to hear songs,

Silent songs—

Gone,

To come,

Or never to come?

No lane of fallen leaves,

However red or brown or gold,

However soft to the tread,

Is as caressing

As the hard gray flagstone

Of a city street.

Look at one and hear.