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

Beauty

Louise Townsend Nicholl

WHY did you stop me, God, that day,

Upon my rutted road of living?

Why might I not have kept my way

And never known your ruthless giving?

I should not walk so burdened now,

Nor be alone in this new land,

If all there is of beauty in the world

You had not pressed into my hand.