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

From a Chicago “L”

Sarah-Margaret Brown

THE GREAT gray houses walk along

Sombrely and slow,

Weary in the dusk,

In a dragging row.

They are very tired,

Heart-broken and old;

They seem to shudder as they pass,

The winter wind is cold.