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October I th	A
My friend dear friend why should I hear your voice	B
Over the Babel of voices suddenly	C
Calling as from the new world to the old	D
Hush are you weary would you follow me	C
Would you make dark the house and shut the door	E
Summon steam pacing trains wave racing ships	F
To bear you past the high assembled nations	G
Past the loud cries the plucking hands of the age	H
Even to the East that drowses on her throne	I
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Come then it's good to be alive today	J
For yesterday is dead and dim tomorrow	K
Flits like a ghost before us threatening	L
Our peering eyes with mistily flapping wings	M
Grandly the streets loom upward huge skyscrapers	N
Catch at the glory of the sunrise wear	O
The morning like a mantle bare their heads	P
In praise and prayer And with us on the pavement	Q
Above us in the air there and below	K
Under our feet by train and tram and subway	J
The people bear the burden of the age	H
Each to his work each to his love his dream	R
The little secret vision of his soul	S
Veiled muffled trampled baffled but agleam	R
Our people eager to work eager to laugh	T
Eager to love if but to love were easy	C
Pausing not for the slow and difficult thing	L
As they push past their neighbors to the goal	S
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Now to the ship down the long crowded wharves	C
The tangle of souls and voices threading thinly	C
Through the slight gangway Do you see her there	O
Huge black incredible fortress walled in steel	U
Hiding her heart of fire She has no fear	V
The fierce waves leap at her the arrogant storms	C
Tease at her flying heels the boastful winds	C
Front her in vain Superb invincible	W
From world to world over the ravenous ocean	X
Grandly she bears the fruitage of the time	Y
Rich fields of corn mill yields of goods long train loads	C
Of strong machines man's hope and love and power	Z
Sealed in a million letters and at last	A2
Even us the little human mustard seeds	C
Dark earth specks with the kingdom of heaven within	B2
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Gaily we tread the deck softly we sleep	C2
Lightly we chatter away the idle days	C
While strong hands from dark hold to sunny mast	A2
Do our enormous tasks And now at last	A2
The world again low chalky cliffs the shore	E
Parked England silvery green her viny casements	C
And dewy lawns her iron towns of toil	D2
Smoke bound unfree And London stony London	X
Gray storehouse of the heaped up centuries	C
Of hidden sins and valors locked in joys	C
London the empire hearted grave with cares	C
Under her tawny sky that dulls the sun	X
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We linger not swiftly the new age runs	C
And he must haste who takes her by the hand	E2
Over the Channel Come the little houses	C
And patchwork fields of France Paris fullblown	X
The red red rose of the world whose golden heart	F2
Lies bare to the greedy sun whose petals droop	G2
Ever so softly to the falling time	Y
Most lovely at the signal hour of change	H2
Germany then the little patterned cities	C
Of the old time swept garnished for the new	X
The ancient halls hung with the ancient art	F2
And musical with high stringed orchestras	C
Playing melodious prophecies gay Berlin	X
Garish unmellowed pale but full of hope	I2
And proud desire	Z
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Ah whither do they march	J2
These nations with the sweat upon their brows	C
Huge burden bearers panoplied in steel	U
Facing bleak mists of doubt Will they cast	A2
down Their heavy fears and bathe their brows in light	K2
And freely run across the fields of dawn	X
Children of joy blood brothers born in love	L2
Valiant for peace as once for murderous war	E
Nearer they draw trimly the sharp rails cut	M2
Their boundaries twin scissor blades of fate	N2
Swift steamers tie their ports together bring	L
Tourist ambassadors from state to state	N2
Bold man birds fly through the unsentineled air	O
And cobweb wires invisible more strong	O2
Than chains of steel are spun from tower to tower	Z
Bridging the oceans linking capitals	C
Binding men's hearts O kings of the peopled earth	P2
O men rulers of kings dare you resist	Q2
Warriors of science who are blazing trails	C
Your statesmenship must travel to new goals	C
Laggards beware lest the advancing myriads	C
Bound for the promised land trample you down	X
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Dark Russia standing at the Asian gate	N2
Questions us with her eastward peering eyes	C
Proud Moscow from her hundred towers looks out	R2
Moscow bejeweled with domes magnificent	Q
Out of her past barbaric gazes far	S2
Into the future swings her Kremlin portal	W
To show the sad Siberian wilderness	C
And bids us follow through the autumnal days	C
Softly we slip along the garnered fields	C
Past clustered villages low thatched and brown	X
Each with a gay church gilded shimmer down	X
The shining Urals and salute at last	A2
Great Asia where in solitude she waits	C
Under the northern star	S2
	-
Her forest then	X
Level and low dark little pines thin birches	C
Their leaves all golden on the silver stems	C
And square faced peasants crowding to the train	X
Slow sleepy eyed thick bearded Onward still	T2
Through the stark plains Baikal blue in its mountains	C
The home of wheeling birds that dive and soar	E
And by and by a dragon guarded roof	U2
With gay beasts perched along its tips that lift	V2
Like the slim corner of a pale new moon	X
Poised in the sky at sunset	W2
	-
We have come	X2
To the first gate of the world The still Pacific	Y2
Glitters between the hills Dark crowds astare	E
Greet us with chatter and laughter beardless men	X
With shaven brows and long thin tasseled braids	C
Clad in dim blue under the darkening sun	X
The obliterating night curtains our eyes	C
And when at last the red dawn draws the veil	Z2
A heavy wall looms over us gray and stern	X
With towered gates fortress guarded And our engine	X
Steaming and shrieking past the caravans	C
The shaggy ponies little loaded asses	C
The slow process camels pacing down	X
Scatters the dust of time pierces the wall	A3
And pauses under the shadow of yellow roofs	C
Where the Forbidden City wide and still	T2
Lies dreaming in her sunrise slanted woods	C
	-
Peking She faces us with marble eyes	C
Inscrutable She hearkens to our noise	C
And guards her secret Shall we win her over	E
We with our guns our dark machines our mansions	C
High piled over her lowly curving roofs	C
We with our loud commands Will she arise	C
Weary of silence wave her yellow flag	B3
Summon her myriads for the modern race	C
The huge new tasks the war for love and light	K2
Hush If we wait and listen will she speak	C3
Wise woman or child veiled queen of the dragon throne	X
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Softly No steamer elbowing storms aside	D3
No engine nosing through the ancient wall	A3
No hurrying foot no soul worn or at war	E
Shall penetrate the Circle and the Square	E
Set with sweet woods the green wall and the blue	X
And touch the three rings of the Temple of Heaven	X
The terraced marble seat cloud carved and fair	E
Where at the Centre of the Earth in peace	C
The tranquil East contemplative serene	X
Dwells with the sun and moon	X
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Hush bare your head	E3
And strip your spirit free When you have won	X
The ultimate Wisdom seek the wing d portal	W
Once more Then she the sage may rise to you	X
Hold converse with you pilgrim of the age	H
And take you to her heart and bless your gifts	C
And be as one with you forevermore	E

Harriet Monroe

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