The Little Review

Vol. I

JANUARY, 1915

No. 10

Copyright, 1915, by Margaret C. Anderson.

The Allies

(August 14th, 1914)

Amy Lowell

Into the brazen, burnished sky the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats against the hard winds, and binds the head of the serpent to its tail, the long snail-slow serpent of marching men. Men weighted down with rifles and knapsacks, and parching with war. The cry jars and splits against the brazen, burnished sky.