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

In the Middle West

Mary Carolyn Davies

THIS land is a great sea;

Out of it me—

And into it at the end.

It is my friend,

My lover and enemy—

My mother and lover and friend;

My master and my slave.

It gave

All that I have, and it will take away

All that I have, and even my life, some day.

The ocean is a friend who, for a while,

Will talk with me, and smile;

But always with a stranger’s courtesy.

The land is maker and lover and slayer of me.