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

Hound at Night

Louise Ayres Garnett

From “Songs of Silence”

I DID not know how brittle

Was the silence

Till quick, shrewd barks of a hound

Pelted over the hills

Breaking the stillness into fragments,

Like slivers of bright looking-glass.