| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| OUT of the window a sea of green trees | |
| Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer; | |
| They beckon and call me, “Come out in the sun!” | |
| But I cannot answer. | |
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| I am alone with Weakness and Pain, | 5 |
| Sick abed and June is going, | |
| I cannot keep her, she hurries by | |
| With the silver-green of her garments blowing. | |
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| Men and women pass in the street | |
| Glad of the shining sapphire weather, | 10 |
| But we know more of it than they, | |
| Pain and I together. | |
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| They are the runners in the sun, | |
| Breathless and blinded by the race, | |
| But we are watchers in the shade | 15 |
| Who speak with Wonder face to face. | |
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