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Only for the soil which stares
Clean into God's face, he cares.

In the stark might of his deed
There is more than art or creed;

In his wrist more strength is hid
Than the monstrous Pyramid;

Stauncher than stern Everest
Be the muscles of his breast;

Not the Atlantic sweeps a flood
Potent as the ploughman's blood.

He, his horse, his ploughshare, these Are the only verities.

Dawn to dusk, with God he stands, The Earth poised on his broad hands.

THE SINGER OF HIGH STATE

On hills too harsh for firs to climb,
Where eagle dare not hatch her brood,
On the sheer peak of Solitude,
With anvils of black granite crude
He beats austerities of rhyme.

Such godlike stuff his spirit drinks,
He made great odes of tempest there.
The steel-winged eagle, if he dare
To cleave these tracts of frozen air,
Hearing such music, swoops and sinks.

Stark tumults, which no tense night awes,
Of godly love and titan hate
Down crags of song reverberate.
Held by the Singer of High State,
Battalions of the midnight pause.

On hills uplift from Space and Time,
On the sheer peak of Solitude,

With stars to give his furnace food,
On anvils of black granite crude
He beats austerities of rhyme.

A REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following thirteen volumes deal, in considerable detail, with many of the poets, groups and tendencies considered in this collection. A few treat principally of the period between 1860 and 1890; the majority, however, reflect the shifting course of contemporary poetry. Most of the thirteen contain liberal quotations, references, and suggestions for supplementary reading.

AIKEN, CONRAD. Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry. Alfred A. Knopf. 1919.

BOYNTON, PERCY H. A History of American Literature. Ginn and Company. 1919.

1915.

BROOKS, VAN WYCK. America's Coming of Age. (Chapters II
and III.) B. W. Huebsch.
EASTMAN, MAX. Enjoyment of Poetry. Charles Scribner's
Sons. 1913.

✅Lowell, Amy. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. The
Macmillan Company.

1917.

LOWES, JOHN LIVINGSTON. Convention and Revolt in Poetry. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1919.

MONROE, HARRIET, and ALICE CORBIN HENDERSON. The New

Poetry-An Anthology. The Macmillan Company. 1917. MORRIS, LLOYD R. The Young Idea (An Anthology of Opinion). Duffield and Company. 1917.

NEWBOLT, HENRY. A New Study of English Poetry. E. P. Dutton and Company. 1919.

PATTEE, FRED LEWIS. A History of American Literature Since 1870. The Century Company. 1915.

✓ RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE B. The Younger American Poets. (18601900). Little, Brown and Company. 1904.

UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. The New Era in American Poetry. Henry Holt and Company. 1919.

WILKINSON, MARGUERITE. New Voices. The Macmillan Company. 1919.

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