Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Old ManuscriptAlfred Kreymborg
T
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary.
To read it all
One must be a linguist
More learned than Father Wisdom,
And a visionary
More clairvoyant than Mother Dream.
But to feel it
One must be an apostle:
One who is more than intimate
In having been, always,
The only confidant—
Like the earth
Or the sea.