Living

Do You Fear the Wind?

by Hamlin Garland 1860–1940

From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)

Living

Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf,
Go wade like the crane:
The palms of your hands will thicken,
The skin of your cheek will tan,
You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy,
But you'll walk like a man!

MLA

Garland, Hamlin. “Do You Fear the Wind?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/garland/1/.

Chicago

Garland, Hamlin. “Do You Fear the Wind?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/garland/1/.

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