| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| Moth-Terror |
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| I HAVE killed the moth flying around my night-light; wingless and dead it lies upon the floor. | |
| (O who will kill the great Time-Moth that eats holes in my soul and that burrows in and through my secretest veils!) | |
| My will against its will, and no more will it fly at my night-light or be hidden behind the curtains that swing in the winds. | |
| (But O who will shatter the Change-Moth that leaves me in rags—tattered old tapestries that swing in the winds that blow out of Chaos!) | |
| Night-Moth, Change-Moth, Time-Moth, eaters of dreams and of me! | 5 |
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