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.