Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.

Good Company

TO-DAY I have grown taller from walking with the trees,

The seven sister-poplars who go softly in a line;

And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a star

That trembled out at nightfall and hung above the pine.

The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk

Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;

And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke—

Lord, who am I that they should stoop—these holy folk of thine?