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

Diogenes

By Max Eastman

A HUT, and a tree,

And a hill for me,

And a piece of a weedy meadow.

I’ll ask no thing,

Of God or king,

But to clear away his shadow.