The crying of a little child at night

In the big dark is crowding loneliness.

Slow death of woman on a Kansas farm;

The ache of those who think beyond their time;

Pain unassuaged of isolated lives,—

All this is loneliness.

Oh, we who are one body of one soul!

Great soul of man born into social form!

Should we not suffer at dismemberment?

A finger torn from brotherhood; an eye