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

I, Who Fade with the Lilacs

I, WHO fade with the lilacs

And with the roses fade,

Am sharing this hour with them

Conferring in the shade.

Life has not left the wonder

With which it first began

To make Pierrot a poet,

In making him a man.

It has not made a rainbow,

In all the sorry years,

But was a sailing glory

Upon a sea of tears.

Somehow life leaves one stranded

On shores too near or far,

Hitching, forever hitching

Ships—shallops to a star.

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