Alice Corbin. I Saw the World Go by. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

I Saw the World Go by

By Alice Corbin


From “Songs from a Book of Airs” I SAW the world go by:
With crimson banners flying,
And loud bugles crying,
The young world went by.

I saw the world go by:	5
Footsore and weary,
Banners torn and dreary,
The old world went by.

I saw the world go by—
And laughed to see it going,	10
And cried to see it going,
And while I watched it going,
The world went by!