| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| Francis Ledwidge |
| | | Grace Hazard Conkling |
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| NEVERMORE singing | |
| Will you go now, | |
| Wearing wild moonlight | |
| On your brow. | |
| The moon’s white mood | 5 |
| In your silver mind | |
| Is all forgotten. | |
| Words of wind | |
| From off the hedgerow | |
| After rain, | 10 |
| You do not hear them; | |
| They are vain. | |
| There is a linnet | |
| Craves a song, | |
| And you returning | 15 |
| Before long. | |
| Now who will tell her, | |
| Who can say | |
| On what great errand | |
| You are away? | 20 |
| You whose kindred | |
| Were hills of Meath, | |
| Who sang the lane-rose | |
| From her sheath, | |
| What voice will cry them | 25 |
| The grief at dawn | |
| Or say to the blackbird | |
| You are gone? | |
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