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

Grampa Schuler

Ruth Suckow

From “By Hill and Dale”

GRAMPA SCHULER, when he was young,

Had a crest of hair, and shining eyes.

He wore red-flowered waistcoats,

Wild Byronic ties.

The whole land of Germany

Wasn’t wide enough!—

He ran away one night, when winter

Seas were fierce and rough.

He has a sleek farm here

With already a settled air.

He’s patriarchal, with his sons

And daughters round him everywhere,

His son’s son Jim has fiery eyes—

He wants to go where the land is new!

Grampa bitterly wonders: “What are

Young fools coming to!”