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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

To a Discarded Steel Rail

By Maxwell Bodenheim

STRAIGHT strength pitched into the surliness of the ditch,

A soul you have—strength has always delicate secret reasons.

Your soul is a dull question.

I do not care for your strength, but for your stiff smile at Time—

A smile which men call rust.