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

The Wanderers

Padraic Colum

A MIGHTY star has drawn a-nigh, and now

Is vibrant in the air;

The trembling, half-divested trees of his

Bright presence are aware.

And Night has told it to the hills, and told

The partridge in the nest;

And left it on the long white roads that she

Gives light instead of rest.

I watch it in the stream, the stranger-star,

Pulsing from marge to main:

What mould will be my flesh and bone before

That star is there again!