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

Austerity

Janet Loxley Lewis

From “Cold Hills”

I HAVE lived so long

On the cold hills alone …

I loved the rock

And the lean pine trees,

Hated the life in the turfy meadow,

Hated the heavy, sensuous bees.

I have lived so long

Under the high monotony of starry skies,

I am so cased about

With the clean wind and the cold nights,

People will not let me in

To their warm gardens

Full of bees.