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

Fire

Max Michelson

YOU contain more

Than the red and the purple and the orange

Which I see:

If I dared to tear you to shreds with my hands

I would find that you contain also water,

And ice, and even blackish-brown earth,

To make beautiful things with.