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

Claude Debussy

Agnes Lee

MAN’S music changes

With the changing of his hours,

Though birds trill the same songs

They trilled on Petra’s towers.

Always

From olden hallways

He led to beauty’s ample rooms—

Out to her rain-drenched garden’s frond,

Out to her suns … beyond … beyond.

Ah! did we call his art a whim,

Before we woke to him?

High above war

His music, rising past the stars,

Is heard at heaven’s door.

Heaven opens to the soul of song,

And unto art that never ends

The soul of song ascends.