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

November

Marjorie Allen Seiffert

WHERE, like ghosts of verdant days

Whispering down,

Leaves in the November haze

Drift and drown,

Stand two lovers, motionless

And apart

In their sturdy nakedness

Of the heart—

Two dark figures, side by side

In the mist,

Standing as though time had died

Since they kissed;

Whose deep roots, alive and sound

Blindly reach,

Mingling in the fertile ground

Each with each.

Pray that we, when gaunt and old,

Like bare trees

Through our common earth may hold

Close like these!