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

Epitaph

William Carlos Williams

From “Broken Windows”

AN OLD willow with hollow branches

Slowly swayed his few high bright tendrils

And sang:

“Love is a young green willow

Shimmering at the bare wood’s edge.”