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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

A Poet’s Epitaph

John Black

WHEN comes the last long silence to this lute,

And by its plea no more the calm is broken,

In charity, O world, let it be spoken:

No human sorrow found this player mute!