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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

Bliss Carman. b. 1861

857. Why

FOR a name unknown,
Whose fame unblown
Sleeps in the hills
For ever and aye;
For her who hears	5
The stir of the years
Go by on the wind
By night and day;
And heeds no thing
Of the needs of spring,	10
Of autumn’s wonder
Or winter’s chill;
For one who sees
The great sun freeze,
As he wanders a-cold	15
From hill to hill;
And all her heart
Is a woven part
Of the flurry and drift
Of whirling snow;	20
For the sake of two
Sad eyes and true,
And the old, old love
So long ago.