Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
A NativeLaura Sherry
From “Ridge People”
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Like these middlin’ hills
And a slow stream gurglin’ over stones.
Them pines has lived four hundred years
And asked nothin’ of no one.
Straight and tall and strong—
Nothin’ crooked about a pine.
Religion, I call it,
Pointing to the sky
And slinging incense free.
Did you ever hear
A cedar valley moan a dirge
Or sing an anthem?