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by Harriet Monroe

PRAIRIE child,
Brief as dew,
What winds of wonder
Nourished you?

Rolling plains
Of billowy green,
Far horizons,
Blue, serene;

Lofty skies
The slow clouds climb,
Where burning stars
Beat out the time.

These, and the dreams
Of fathers bold,
Baffled longings,
Hopes untold,

Gave to you
A heart of fire,
Love like deep waters,
Brave desire.

Nancy Hanks Home

Ah, when youth's rapture
Went out in pain,
And all seemed over,
Was all in vain?

O soul obscure,
Whose wings life bound,
And soft death folded
Under the ground;

Wilding lady,
Still and true.
Who gave us Lincoln
And never knew;

To you at last
Our praise, our tears,
Love and a song
Through the nation's years!

Mother of Lincoln,
Our tears, our praise;
A battle-flag
And the victor's bays!

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(1830-1936)

 American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. Harriet Monroe is best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry Magazine.

In her role as editor, Monroe played a part in introducing and helping modern poetry develop. She was a supporter of many poets, including Carl Sandburg, Joyce Kilmer, Vachel Lindsay and many others. With Ezra Pound as overseas correspondent, Poetry Magazine brought such poets as H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Yeats and many others to the attention of the American public.
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