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

Three Poems

By Ralph Hodgson

I
BABYLON—where I go dreaming

When I weary of to-day,

Weary of a world grown gray.

II
God loves an idle rainbow,

No less than laboring seas.

III
Reason has moons, but moons not hers

Lie mirrored on her sea,

Confounding her astronomers,

But, oh, delighting me!