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

Beach Song

Pearl Andelson

From “From a Bay-window”

WHAT are they weaving under the water?

They make sheer laces and drag them down.

They ruffle a lawn with a great grieving.

What are they making—what manner of gown?

What are they weaving, caught here,

Caught there, on the thin-washed blue?

Who is to be married or who is to be buried,

Under the water, under the water?