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

Strangers

Edna Wahlert McCourt

From “Voices”

A Father speaks:
YOU are a bough and I am the tree:

Why are you reaching over the wall?

What do you see?

You are a fawn and I the deer:

Why do you bound to that farthest hill?

What do you hear?

You are a glacier and I am the snow:

Why do you move across the broad land?

Where do you go?