William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.

Three Girls

THREE school-girls pass this way each day:

Two of them go in the fluttery way

Of girls, with all that girlhood buys;

But one goes with a dream in her eyes,

Two of them have the eyes of girls

Whose hair is learning scorn of curls,

But the eyes of one are like wide doors

Opening out on misted shores.

And they will go as they go to-day

On to the end of life’s short way;

Two will have what living buys,

And one will have the dream in her eyes.

Two will die as many must,

And fitly dust will welcome dust;

But dust has nothing to do with one—

She dies as soon as her dream is done.

The Century Magazine